Hi Robert
It seems you already had some disscussions about that specific char "ß". IMHO we have to agree on a consistent spelling when translating. But for me it's not an issue.
You're right, there are some minor differences in spelling - but we agree on the same orthographic rules, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Rechtschreibung.
Nevertheless it makes absolutely no sense to keep more than one German language site alive just because of one char which is written differently. So I guess everyone can agree on that, that the Swiss German users should be redirected to the German language site?!
Cheers, Roman
Am 04.06.2011 00:02 schrieb "Robert Scheck" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello all,
>
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2011, Roman Spirgi wrote:
>> The official written language in the German part of Switzerland is
>> "normal" German.
>
> that is simply wrong, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German. The de_CH
> was introduced because the Swiss people don't have "ß" (Unicode U+00DF) and
> they have some more phrases that aren't common in Germany (and vice versa).
>
> One of the first guys who translated the Fedora static websites to German
> is from Switzerland and really disliked the "ß", that's why the locale was
> switched from de_DE to de_CH.
>
> And no, no "ß" within the German static Fedora websites is not an option to
> me, the German language has and uses the "ß".
>
>
> Greetings,
> Robert
> Hello all,
>
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2011, Roman Spirgi wrote:
>> The official written language in the German part of Switzerland is
>> "normal" German.
>
> that is simply wrong, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German. The de_CH
> was introduced because the Swiss people don't have "ß" (Unicode U+00DF) and
> they have some more phrases that aren't common in Germany (and vice versa).
>
> One of the first guys who translated the Fedora static websites to German
> is from Switzerland and really disliked the "ß", that's why the locale was
> switched from de_DE to de_CH.
>
> And no, no "ß" within the German static Fedora websites is not an option to
> me, the German language has and uses the "ß".
>
>
> Greetings,
> Robert
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