From kde-devel Sat Feb 27 18:11:02 1999 From: "Steen Rabol" Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:11:02 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Danish translation problem Fwd: da/dk X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92014019131902 Hi The problem is: The Mandrake distribution claims to correct a bug in XF86Config during boot. They replace/insert the language as keyboard definition, and in case of the Danish (da_DK), they keyboard is set to da, which is wrong as the keyboard in X should be set to dk for Danish layout. Best Steen -----Original Message----- From: Peter Silva To: kde-devel@kde.org Cc: erik@math.binghamton.edu Date: 26. februar 1999 05:00 Subject: Re: Danish translation problem Fwd: da/dk Stephan Kulow wrote: > > Matthias Ettrich wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: da/dk > > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:50:06 -0500 > > From: Erik Kjær Pedersen > > > > I have been translating kde to Danish, and I just got a question from a Danish > > user (an IT managar) > > KDE abbreviates Denmark by da. This is neither usual nor normal. The normal > > abbreviation is dk in X/linux (and everywhere else). Apparenly this gives a > > problem when installing linux-mandrake, because mandrake changes the language > > setting to da which is not known by X or by linux outside kde. It is a bit of a > > mess, but I feel the only really good solution would be to somehow get the da > > changed to dk. I don't know who I should write to so I send it to you, so maybe > > you can send it to kde-devel. > > > > KDE follows strictly ISO-639: > http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt > which says Danish is da > > Please don't mix languages with countries. Perhaps Denmark is dk, > but Danish is da. > > Greetings, Stephan > I just looked on my linux (Redhat 5.1) and the Danish locale (under /usr/share/locale) is da_DK (Danish from Denmark, like fr_CA, French from Canada.) which is just what one would expect. If Mandrake is based on Redhat (as it claims to be) then the correct locale is da_DK. -- Peter