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Sort items in Language (requires restart to fully take effect) combo box alphabetically by the expanded language names #7284

@bhavyashah

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@bhavyashah

Currently, the list of languages in the Language (requires restart to fully take effect) combo box present in the General Settings dialog are sorted alphabetically with respect to their two-letter language short codes. The basis of sorting is not too evident, particularly at first look, furthermore by a newbie. In my personal experience, despite being a long-time NVDA user, I never quite understood and admittedly never bothered to understand the structure of the sorting there, until I gave this a quick thought while in General Settings moments ago. I suspect that most new users would not recognize the presence or meaning of the two-letter language identifiers and most probably never figure out that that is the characteristic on which the list of languages has been alphabetically sorted.
To address the above described problem, I would like to propose sorting languages alphabetically by their full names itself as opposed to using their identifiers for sake of clarity. I understand that this issue is very trivial, but I suppose it sounds easy to tackle and thus worth reporting.
P.S. Would you advise me to open separate tickets to tackle other similar item sorting improvements such as the Voice Settings > Variants combo box, or should the scope of this ticket just be broadened to encompass those as well (again, too trivial for another dedicated ticket for each case, therefore asking before proceeding)?

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