Small bugs related to translation

Sergey Starosek sergey.starosek at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 05:13:59 PST 2013


On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 07:59:12AM +1100, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > I'd vote for that. I have no idea of how to fix it quickly and correct
> > way.
> 
> So just having the uppercase work is worse than forcing the English
> letters? The reason I'm asking is that the current solution works for
> all Western languages plus for upper case letters in Russian and
> Bulgarian, right? That does seem better than only supporting 'N'
> 'S' 'W' 'E'...

Most of non-IT people don't know what is WGS84 or GPS and have no clue
about formatting coordinates. They even don't know how to type single-quote
and degree symbol. More likely they either choose location on a map, or
paste it from some other software (GM/OSM , gps status app, etc.)

Sergey


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