Swiss German is not actually a written language, German is always written as &#39;High German&#39;, even by the Swiss.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Bueker</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:m.bueker@berlin.de">
m.bueker@berlin.de</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>two questions about the German translation[s]:
<br><br>1. Should the Umlauts in the translation file not rather read &amp;auml; instead of ä, &amp;Uuml; instead of Ü and so on? As I understand it, those labels get displayed without further processing, so this way, we would steer clear of any encoding issues, at least for the German labels and messages.
<br>I could post a patch for this if you think this makes sense.<br><br>2. Do we need a Swiss German translation? The only major significant difference is that there&#39;s no ß in Swiss German, but rather ss is used. But I don&#39;t think this warrants a separate translation which often lags behind the other German one and contains inconsistencies.
<br>I suggest that we either agree on a special set of differences (like this one, which is the only one I can think of) and otherwise &quot;link&quot; the Swiss translation to the German one - or we drop it.<br><br>Cheers,
<br>~Mik<br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>