955235 - Sort languages by alphabetical order on download-all.html

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Servers Graveyard :: www.instantbird.com, enhancement)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1802 by Alexander L. Slovesnik <unghost AT gmail.com> at 2012-11-17 16:59:00 UTC ***

Currently languages in download table on download-all.html is sorted by language code, not by alphabet. It results in Estonian shown after Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese shown after Dutch, etc. It's even worse in non-Latin localization of website.
It would be more useful and pretty to sort languages by alphabet. Perhaps one way to achieve it is to add ability for localizers to sort languages names manually to make them show in alphabetical order through websites/www.instantbird.com/download.properties file. Something like localesOrder=cs,de,en,es....

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 1802 at 2012-11-17 17:54:35 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #0)

> add ability for localizers to sort languages names
> manually to make them show in alphabetical order through
> websites/www.instantbird.com/download.properties file. Something like
> localesOrder=cs,de,en,es....

If using a solution that requires the localizers to chose the order themselves, should we recommend putting their own locale first?

Otherwise, I suspect we could just make the PHP script of the page sort the locales by localized name automatically.

Comment 2

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1802 by Alexander L. Slovesnik <unghost AT gmail.com> at 2012-11-17 19:52:57 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> 
> > add ability for localizers to sort languages names
> > manually to make them show in alphabetical order through
> > websites/www.instantbird.com/download.properties file. Something like
> > localesOrder=cs,de,en,es....
> 
> If using a solution that requires the localizers to chose the order themselves,
> should we recommend putting their own locale first?
I don't think that localizer's locale should be first.

 
> Otherwise, I suspect we could just make the PHP script of the page sort the
> locales by localized name automatically.
If this PHP script could deal with sorting by cyrillic alphabet, then it would be perfect.

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 1802 at 2013-03-26 12:02:23 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Otherwise, I suspect we could just make the PHP script of the page sort the
> > locales by localized name automatically.
> If this PHP script could deal with sorting by cyrillic alphabet, then it would
> be perfect.

I'm pretty sure this is solvable.

Comment 4

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

We're not going to worry about this. Instantbird is no more.