Default Languages
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At the moment, if there is a phrase missing in a language, Loomio 'falls-back' to English.
We've just recently developed function to set other preferred fall-backs.
e.g. We could set up a fallback chain like this :
Català --> Español --> English
if a phrase is missing from Català , Loomio will use the Español phrase, and if that is missing then it will use the English phrase
What we want to know is :
If your language were to have a fall-back language, what would you like it to be?
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Joop Kiefte (LaPingvino)
Thu 11 Sep 2014 1:44PM
Esperanto -> English for now, user setting when/if ever possible
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nando @colgado
Thu 11 Sep 2014 10:45PM
Spanish: English
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Ammar Halabi
Fri 12 Sep 2014 12:35PM
Arabic -> English
Jesús Magarri
Sat 13 Sep 2014 1:55PM
For Basque, Spanish (or French) would be much better than English. More than 87% of active Basque speakers are bilingual in Spanish, whereas the knowledge of English is much, much smaller. The remaining ones are bilingual or fluent French speakers
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Ania Bućkowska
Sun 14 Sep 2014 6:11AM
This solution would be a bit risky for Polish. There is no enough working knowledge of one specific language to make a choice.
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Ania Bućkowska Sun 14 Sep 2014 6:06AM
There is no such language for Polish. The closest (the most common) would still be English, although the working knowledge of English in Poland may vary amongst the users.
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Quentin Grimaud Fri 19 Sep 2014 8:17PM
language: French ; fallback: English
Ammar Halabi · Thu 11 Sep 2014 11:01AM
For Arabic as well, there is no need for another fallback language other than English.