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The same is true for all aspects of I18N and L11N. From keyboard layouts to date formats. I've seen tools that expect US qwerty use hard-coded shortcuts that ar
by elric 2y ago
The same is true for all aspects of I18N and L11N. From keyboard layouts to date formats. I've seen tools that expect US qwerty use hard-coded shortcuts that are impossible to type on different layouts.
Something assumptions and asses.
- 7bit 2y agoI hate Microsoft for that. They created a truly great date and time formatting thing in Windows where I can set a system encoding, a system language, a user language, a date/time "language" and configure individual things like the thousands-separator (. or ,) Only to have obvious junior devs throw all of that out the Windows and now most things are dictated by the users region. Yes, I live in Germany and the region is important for region-locked shit on the app store. That does not fucking mean I want my OS talk to me in German. And on M365, I want German date formatting (DD.MM.YYYY), but when M365 is in English, you cannot select that date formatting, because someone thought that Americans would never need that. Fuck all of these ignorant bastards!
- tmm84 2y agoAs a user who is in an asian region I have all my machines set to that region. However, from time to time there are cases where dates that need to be in USA format are automatically converted to match my region. Go back, edit them, save and they're formatted again. This isn't consistent enough of a problem for me so I don't have a list of programs that do it.
- elric 2y agoAgreed. I'm in Belgium. I get really annoyed when applications or websites randomly decide to talk French at me. Or Dutch. Or even bloody German. My browser is set to Accept-Language: en. I wish people would realise that country is not a trustworthy indicator for language.