Added Swiss German to languages dropdown

[FlohEinstein]

See thread https://chaos.social/@FlohEinstein/111929063655542110 for interest

[lutoma]

Based on the other entries in the file, I believe the first entry in the array should be the English language name, i.e. Swiss German in this case (But someone correct me if I'm wrong). Also I think adding this option might require Swiss German translations of the Mastodon interface on Crowdin first.

[FlohEinstein]

Based on the other entries in the file, I believe the first entry in the array should be the English language name, i.e. Swiss German in this case (But someone correct me if I'm wrong).

To your first comment: oh man, I'm stupid, my mistake! Happened because I tried several different versions of how to write Swiss German in Swiss German. Definitely agree with your point. Can you correct this or do I have to resubmit?

Also I think adding this option might require Swiss German translations of the Mastodon interface on Crowdin first.

To your second comment: I think this was addressed in the discussion here, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26634 , this does not need translation. Am I right?

[lutoma]

Can you correct this or do I have to resubmit?

I don't have merge permissions on the repository anyways, but it's probably easier for the maintainers if you change it. You can just force-push to your branch and the pull request will update itself.

To your second comment: I think this was addressed in the discussion here, #26634 , this does not need translation. Am I right?

Looks like it, sorry for causing confusion there.

[FlohEinstein]

I don't have merge permissions on the repository anyways, but it's probably easier for the maintainers if you change it. You can just force-push to your branch and the pull request will update itself.

Thanks for the tip, I just did that.

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[renchap]

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_German, gsw is both the ISO-639-2 code for Alemannic german, and the ISO-639-3 code for Swiss German.

I am not sure what our policy here is, and which language we should use?

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[FlohEinstein]

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_German, gsw is both the ISO-639-2 code for Alemannic german, and the ISO-639-3 code for Swiss German.

I am not sure what our policy here is, and which language we should use?

According to https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-code, the maintenance agencies for ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 are the Library of Congress and the SIL respetively, with the latter being the more complete (according to ISO). The variable is called ISO_639_3. SIL has two lists, the code set https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab and the language names index https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3_Name_Index.tab . Alemannic and Alsatian only appear in the Name Index list.

On the SILs page https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_tables/download_tables it specifically says for the code set

NOTE: The "Ref_Name" column in this table contains a reference name by which this language is identified in the standard. The Reference Name is employed for ease of use of the code set, and does not imply it is to be preferred in any application to any other name that may be associated with the particular code element as given in the Language Names Index.

I would suggest that we follow the standard's way and use "Swiss German".

[gunchleoc]

I always use the CLDR as a reference, because it will align with other software projects. So, the entry looks correct to me: https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/44/summary/gsw.html#225d5b8bb41c393