[daisy] Default language considered harmful?

[A Rocha Webmaster]

Hello everyone. I am setting up a group of sites which are very
international in nature. All of them have more than one language, but
the primary content language is different in each site. One site has
most of its pages in Portuguese, another has 5x more pages in English
than in any other language.

Should I use the "default" language?

Would it be better for any future purposes to always create an "en"
variant for English pages, and so on, and leave the "default" unused? In
the future we intend to change the Variants menu to show language names,
or to show a list of language codes at the top: "ar cs en es fi fr nl
pt". "Default" will come up strange there.

I've been checking the live sites list and I am not sure if anyone
(other that Outerthought's own site about Daisy) is using variants for
different languages. http://www.veldenduin.be is the most international
site on that list (4 languages) and yet it looks like the languages have
been developed separately. It's the same contents in every language, but
pages aren't connected together.

Has anyone gone through the trouble of analysing whether it was best (in
their case) to separate completely the different languages, or it was
good to use Daisy's language variants? If so, would you like to share
your premises and results here?

Thanks,
Júlio Reis.
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