Incomplete mapping of language names in control panel

[agitator]

for example de-at maps to "Deutsch (Österreich)", de-ch is not mapped to a label
where does the "magic" happen here?

[jensens]

still an issue

[davisagli]

Still valid in Plone 6

[mauritsvanrees]

plone/i18n/locales/languages.py has the language definitions. de-ch is missing a native name for the language:

    "de-at": {
        "name": "German (Austria)",
        "native": "Deutsch (Österreich)",
        "flag": "countryflag/at",
    },
    "de-ch": {
        "name": "German (Switzerland)",
        "flag": "countryflag/ch",
    },

So to fix it, you edit de-ch to have "native": "Deutsch (Gruezibuezi)" ;-)

I suppose it is logical that the English name is not used as fallback: if the user does not understand English, then she may not recognise the English name. "German" and "Deutsch" do not even begin with the same character.

I will add a few for German and Dutch.

[davisagli]

@mauritsvanrees I could imagine a fancy fallback that looks for a translation of the non-country-specific variation name of the language, then adds the 2-char country code in parentheses. But it is probably easier to just add the native names manually.

[davisagli]

Not really complete; that PR only fixed it for German and Dutch

[jensens]

wtf, automatic close ...

[davisagli]

@jensens yeah I know, no worries

[erral]

the AvailableContentLanguageVocabulary in plone.app.vocabularies uses the native name and if there is no native language name, the language code to build the vocabulary.

In our language list in plone.i18n we have native names only for language names and not for language-country variants (except some of them).

I added a PR fixing this in plone.i18n for many languages (mainly the big ones like fr, es and en), but there are still some missing, like ar 😵

[mauritsvanrees]

Thanks @erral! I think this can be closed now. Doing so.