[MPlayer-DOCS] [homepage]: r2884 - in trunk: Makefile design7/src/selector

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 19 April 2007 at 20:25, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > > @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
> > > >               <a href="news-hu.html"><img src="images/lang_hu.png" alt="Magyarul" width="41" height="29"></a>
> > > >  <!--         <a href="news-pl.html"><img src="images/lang_pl.png" alt="Polski" width="41" height="29"></a>-->
> > > >               <a href="news-es.html"><img src="images/lang_es.png" alt="Castellano" width="41" height="29"></a>
> > > > +             <a href="news-ru.html"><img src="images/lang_ru.png" alt="Russian" width="41" height="29"></a>
> > >
> > > Why not add it in Cyrillic here? Rossiya isn't it?
> > >
> > "Rossiya" is country in cyrillic.
> > Language will be "Russkiy".
> > I thought languages  names above were in English, not transliterated
> > native names.
> 
> Imho those are in their native form. Anyway, just looked that it is the
> alternate text, which should not be visible normally. Maybe some webpage
> reading software would use it, and in that case better to use Latin
> characters.

It appears as tooltip in most graphical browsers and as text in text
browsers. So yes, IMHO it should be native transliteration to Latin characters.

Regards,
R.

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