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05/11/2014 06:53:56 PM (12 years ago)
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  • Ticket #28197, comment 5

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    331)  Translation teams from different locales could focus on the generic fallback version first- and then quickly copy it to make country specific localizations.  Hopefully it would not get political as any translator who disagreed with a translation in the default could just change it for their specific locale.
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    5 2)  This avoids having to build and maintain and ordered list of fallbacks for each language.
     52)  This avoids having to build and maintain an ordered list of fallbacks for each language.
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    77Instead of defaulting to "generic" we could default to the locale with simply the largest population.  E.g. English > United States, Spanish > Mexico, Portuguese > Brazil.  But then you might get might get a Spanish (es_ES) translation for an es_MX localizations simply because it would be used more.  So for this reason, a generic fallback would probably be better.