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by MartianSquirrel 2376 days ago
I could be mistaken, but it seems like they translated it in EU countries official languages, which is why Irish is present but not Catalan.
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Yes, it seems to be this. I hope this is a default list of languages, and more languages may be added if requested.
Ok, I can understand that it sucks that your language is excluded, but I think it would make way more sense to try to get your language recognized as an official eu language instead of critizising a finnish project for limiting their selection to official eu languages.

With that said, if catalan was added, would you actually use that instead of english for a course like this?

> it would make way more sense to try to get your language recognized as an official eu language instead of critizising a finnish project for limiting their selection to official eu languages

I agree 100% with this. My intention is not to criticize the organizers of this course that made a very reasonable choice. The problem here is the rather absurdl (in my view) selection of official EU language. It would make more sense to me to declare English the sole official language of the union. This would not favor any big country now that the UK is out.

> With that said, if catalan was added, would you actually use that instead of english for a course like this?

Of course! I use all my software localized into catalan, even vim! Now, for technical documentation it is rare to find much in my language, almost everything is in english only. If this (quite serious) course was translated I would be even happier to follow it (but I might do it anyway if it was english only, as I'm used to it).