Does anyone know the meaning of this dialog? I see it at the bottom of an email with attachments. I can pick from several languages, like Japanese, Thai and more...
http://blogoscoped.com/files/gmail-zipped-for-english.png
It reads: "Download all attachments (zipped for English (US)) |
Might be for encoding reasons of the compressed folder's name ? |
I don't see this. I get the "Download all attachments" link but no dropdown allowing me to pick language. I have multiple language setup in Firefox too but that makes no difference. Are you using a non-English OS?
What PierreS says could be true. I seem to remember different language operating systems have different folder specifications which restrict the characters that can be used in them, which particularly affects double-byte languages like Japanese. But I could be wrong about that. |
I have a German OS (unfortunately, as it makes looking up info and making screenshots etc. worse). Why don't they just figure out a name that would work on all folders, say, attachment-2008-12-12 or something? That might not be ideal but this language dialog seems confusing so that's not ideal either... |
I see it too! Philipp: du bist nicht allein ;-) |
I'm guessin, with no knowledge of german, that that means "Philipp, you are not crazy ;-)"
Am I right? |
You're not alone, but yes that's roughly the same meaning ;-) |
Like the Google Watch Blog said, the menu only appears if one ore more of your attachments has any special characters like German 'Umlaute'. Choosing the wrong language option makes special characters turn to underscores or similar.
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I have to pick the language too but only with text based files, this means that the zip algo use some coding related to letters frequency which is different in each language (Huffman).
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/Multimedia/node210.html |
