2020-12-16: Order of Languages in homepage

[TomKellyGenetics]

Regarding the order of the entries (#254), the languages on the homepage may need to be changed for consistency (this is done manually as I understand it).

In PR #129 I added Japanese but it is under Portuguese by mistake (not sure if this was changed around the same time and merged awkwardly).

https://github.com/carpentries/glosario/blob/3ddacca7561222220af08c910b10b1a7981c1635/_config.yml#L114_L127

I wasn't sure whether to sort alphabetically by roman letters (e.g. de, en, fr, it, ja, nl, pt) or use romansied names 日本語(Nihongo) as discussed here or sort by language name in endonyms as done here with other alphabets, abjad, and CJK characters at the end:

Endonym	Romanised	English name	ISO 639-1	ISO 639-2
Afrikaans			af	afr
Català		Catalan	ca	cat
Deutsch		German	de	deu
English			en	eng
Español		Spanish	es	span
Français		French	fr	fra
Nederlands		Dutch	nl	nld
Polski		Polish	po	pol
Ελληνικά	Elliniká	Greek	el	gre
עִבְרִית‎	Ivrit	Hebrew	he	heb
Русский язык	rússkiy yazýk	Russian	ru	rus
العربية	al-ʿarabiyyah	Arabic	ar	ara
हिन्दी	Hindī		hi	hin
ภาษาไทย	Phasa Thai	Thai	th	tha
한국어	Hangug-eo	Korean	ko	kor
简体中文	Jiǎntǐ Zhōngwén	Chinese (simplified)	zh_ch	chi
繁體中文	Fántǐ Zhōngwén	Chinese (traditional)	zh_tw zh_hk	zho
日本語	Nihongo	Japanese	ja	jpn

So either we sort Japanese as "ja", "nihongo", or put it at the end as a special character (in which case Arabic would be moved as well).

[baileythegreen]

The order of languages on the homepage is not ever sorted. It is determined entirely by the order of the entries in _config.yml. If you look, you will see that Japanese in this file is below Portuguese.

I gather that the number of languages that exist in this project has grown fairly quickly. Before it gets out-of-hand, we should consider whether it makes sense to have a home page that lists all of the languages and their respective blurbs in some order, or:

1. either detect the language settings of the computer/browser as this post asks (not something I know how to do at the moment, but I can learn which variables to use), or
2. just have a dropdown menu where people can choose their language, as many sites do. I don't see the mechanics and CSS for that being terribly difficult.

[TomKellyGenetics]

The order of languages on the homepage is not ever sorted. It is determined entirely by the order of the entries in _config.yml. If you look, you will see that Japanese in this file is below Portuguese.

I understand that, I'm suggesting to decide on a consistent order to manually change it (as it only needs to be done once) and make sure that new languages are added correctly. The problem seems to be non-Latin writing systems as it's not clear where to sort them.

Of course if either of your suggested solutions are implemented this would be no longer relevant. They're both good ideas but I actually like the home page giving an overview of how many languages are supported as it is.

[ian-flores]

Fixed in #260