Kurdish is not the official language of Turkey

[David Balažic]

I'll just add that:
 - having two language choices is confusing and unnecessary (one for installer and one for the app itself)
 - the installer choice is not stating clearly that this choice is just for the installer and that
the applications language is an independent setting

and:
I already set my language preferences in the OS preferences. Why do I have to repeat it over an over again?
For each application. Twice.
(not to mention all the web pages)

Regards,
David

PS: For the hot blooded Turks: Include a "Turkish" option in the installer that just brings up a text
block after clicking Next, that explains no Turk has bothered to provide a turkish translation, unlike
Kurds...
(the last part could be dropped)

Could the author of the app translation be contacted about this? If he translated the application, the
installer is surely a much smaller piece of work?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at pidgin.im 
> [mailto:support-bounces at pidgin.im] On Behalf Of Ethan Blanton
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:52 PM
> To: Mark Doliner
> Cc: support at pidgin.im; Göksel Albeni
> Subject: Re: Kurdish is not the official language of Turkey
> 
> Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > 2011/7/13 Göksel Albeni <goksel_albeni at hotmail.com>:
> > > Kurdish is not the official language of Turkey.
> > 
> > Is there something in Pidgin that implies that Kurdish is 
> the official
> > language of Turkey?
> 
> No, this is the usual Turkish rant.  It's this bug:
> 
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8413
> 
> Basically, no Turkish-speaker has bothered to translate the Windows
> installer into Turkish.  Pidgin can still be *installed* in Turkish,
> the installer simply cannot be run in Turkish.  Meanwhile, dozens of
> Turks contact us with rude and ignorant rants about domestic Turkish
> politics in which we play no part.
> 
> I look forward to seeing the court filings, I'm sure they will be
> amusing.  I particularly hope that Turkey has strong frivolous lawsuit
> penalties -- although I hold little hope.
> 
> Ethan
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