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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Danish translation problem Fwd: da/dk
From:       "Steen Rabol" <rabol () get2net ! dk>
Date:       1999-02-27 18:11:02
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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 <peter.silva@videotron.ca>
To: kde-devel@kde.org <kde-devel@kde.org>
Cc: erik@math.binghamton.edu <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 <erik@math.binghamton.edu>
> >
> > 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

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