I have a question and a suggestion about the Language setup. After
installing mediawiki 1.1.0 on my powerbook with OSX 10.3, I was playing
around with the language setup and encounter the following problem:
Suppose I want to try to do a L10N for a language whose LanguageXX.php
is not contained in the source of mediawiki. So I try to, say, copy
LanguageFr.php into LanguageXx.php and set $wgLanguageCode = "xx" in
LocalSettings.php. But it seems that it doesn't work. French interface
won't show up and it falls back to English interface. How do I fix this
problem? Also, does the language code need to be two letters? Can I
have $wgLanguageCode = "xyz" or "xx-yyy" ,etc.
And this links to my suggestion. Is it possible to let user choose the
user interface language? Even in the case of
xx.wikipedia.org, where
there is definitely strong correlation between the language used for
the content and for the interface. It might be desirable for some
people sometimes to choose a interface language which is different from
the language used for the content. (and it will be even more desirable
if the content of the site is multi-lingo in nature). But it seems to
me that the current code does NOT provide this flexibility? (I might be
wrong).
best
pochung