Bug 88680

Summary:	Field for the preferred language
Product:	[Applications] kaddressbook	Reporter:	Fred Schättgen <kdebugtracker.sch>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, cp.hennessy, kdenis, Klaus.Weidenbach, tokoe
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Fred Schättgen 2004-09-02 13:29:31 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

KAddressbook doesn't seem to offer a field to specify the preferred language of a contact. I don't know if there is a standardized name for it in the vcard spec, but LDAP (inetorgperson) does have "preferredLanguage" for instance.

It could be useful to automatically select language specific settings in kmail (spell checker, signature..) or kopete (away messages, maybe encoding) or other programs which use kaddressbook.

Comment 1 m.wege 2005-01-08 17:57:34 UTC

I very much agree to this wish. If you communicate in different languages it would be very helpful feature.

Comment 2 Thomas Beinicke 2005-07-19 21:15:24 UTC

I would love to see that added as well.
Especially in Kopete it would be extremely useful because right now only the default language is set.
KMail would be another application where it's very useful.

Comment 3 Cp Hennessy 2005-08-14 14:45:57 UTC

*** Bug 107561 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Cp Hennessy 2005-08-14 18:34:57 UTC

This must be supported in the base component libabc first.

Comment 5 Thomas Beinicke 2005-08-15 12:25:04 UTC

So should a new bug report be opened for libabc?

Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2011-07-26 13:27:07 UTC

Can KDEPIM developers please check if there is a "language" field/property in contacts that applications can query to adapt to a contact's preferred language?

Comment 7 Denis Kurz 2017-01-17 10:30:03 UTC

No such preferred-language field to be found as of KAddressbook 5.4.1