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Smartphone: No
PC: No
Programs: DependsEdit:
Forgot, my debian servers are configured for english with german keyboard layout qwertz.When I started computering, there where no localised systems. When they started translating, the German was often misleading, incomplete, or just didn’t fit in the button or whatever. So I stuck with English. Somewhere along the line I switched to en_UK, though.
And yeah, in this day and age I have no clue how good the translations are, because I never checked them.
Same here. My native language is Spanish, and the localized terms always felt weird to me.
I also always use English keyboard layout, regardless of what is printed on the keys.
The only thing I change is date format, because US date format hurts my brain.
What about the ‘ñ’?
I have a second keyboard layout configured, and I switch to it for the ‘ñ’ and the tildes when needed.
In Czech we have a ‘prpgrammers’ variant of they keyboard layout, that is in fact the US layout but types the diacritics if you type ctrl+alt+key. Spanish might have a coders variant too
I do use German key layout, as I’m used to that for decades.
And German number, currency, date, address formats, as the English are just whack
or just didn’t fit in the button
Most German problem ever lmao. I just noticed you have Pos1 for Home, which makes sense ig, I was just never expecting a numeral on a key that isn’t a number key
The end key becomes ende. Over 30% increase!
English. Arabic is very neglected translation-wise and mixing LTR and RTL is mindnumbing
Neither
Troubleshooting is done with
LANGUAGE=EN.Upvote: I use English
Downvote: I use my local languageFYI, there are instances on which down votes are disabled. Reddthat, for example. I can’t see or make downvotes on this profile.
I think Reddthat enabled downvotes a little while back. I still don’t use them, because I prefer the "upvote only method… rather than downvote, I’ll just comment why I disagree or ignore entirely. I feel it encourages discussion to not be able to downvote
Still disabled.
And I like it. I agree with you, it encourages me to ignore the bad faith trolls and the bigots quicker. I apply a user tag to them and move on without getting bogged down into reddit-style fights.
Oh, I didn’t realize that
On .ml it shows me a nice overview of votes in both ways
Beehaw is the same way. I’m fine with not having downvotes, I generally don’t tend to miss it…
English language, local keyboard and formatting
Can confirm that Hexbear does not support downvotes.
Nor does Beehaw, I just remembered
English, with custom key bindings for accents etc. Mostly because I hate AZERTY with a passion.
Thai language
English. It’s my second language & I’ve been using it in all my electronics since the 90s. Easier to understand programming too.
Although I can be considered a very tech-savvy person, I actually have my laptop set to use my local language and not English. This is because my local language has an issue of absorbing too many English words, I feel better when I have to remember and use my language’s words and not the English ones. Not really sure if you will understand what I mean here though.
In addition to everything said, people underestimate how god awful some translations still are. Stuff like date pickers where May is translated as “maybe” or “three days left” where “left” is translated as “opposite of right”. Even for websites I’ll prefer the original language even if I don’t exactly speak it, and then translate myself the part I need.
I remember seeing dates displayed in the wrong case. It felt like reading “June 15th of the mondays”. (and it would translate back to something pretty close to that)
If you see bad translations in open-source projects, please help by fixing them :)
It’s a straightforward way to contribute to open-source, even if you know nothing about coding, and it helps a lot. It’s hard for open source projects to find good translators.
The other thing that really helps is improving documentation. Developers hate writing docs :)
I use Dutch, because I’m one of the three Dutchmen that actually likes his language and I don’t want to see English all day.
At this point it’s almost 2 decades of English uis only everywhere I can. Phone, computers, tv, etc.
Just makes life easier.
Sometimes I see or interact with someone else phone or computer and my brain just freezes in panic because I have no idea about the words and concepts that people see in my native language.
Pc in English phone in mother tongue for some reason. Probably because it didn’t bother me that much. I can’t be assed to debug my pc and translate all the buzzwords in my head and programming is better when the keyboard shortcuts work without having to set them up manually.
Speaking of programming, I’ve noticed that all the commonly used symbols are easily accessible in a US layout. In many other layouts, some common symbols might be begging several keystrokes.
Thats because the languages were invented by americans
English. Except my phone because of how it handles keyboards
I prefer english UI everywhere, and then my danish keyboard layout ive used since forever
Do you use qwerty or qwertz? I force qwerty on all of my keyboards
Qwerty
But scandinavian layout
When I started using computers, my mother tongue had spotty support. Most of the content that I need(ed) to digest is also in English.
Only on past few years it made sense not to use English but now I’m habituated
