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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: KDE 3 language codes
From:       "Christian A =?iso-8859-1?q?Str=F8mmen?= \[Number1/NumeroUno\]" <number1 () kde ! org
Date:       2001-12-12 17:14:34
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On Tuesday 11 December 2001 09:54, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Friday, 7. December 2001 11:43, Hans Petter Bieker wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Thomas Diehl wrote:
> > > no ->  nb (?)
> > > no_NY -> nn (?)
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > > Anyone from Norway could clear this up? (Most people will probably
> > > still look for "no" if they look for Norwegian Bookmal.)
> >
> > nb is for "Norwegian, bokmål", while nn is for "Norwegian, nynorsk".
> >
> > I guess one problem is that most applications still use no as code for
> > Bokmål. So I guess I will get an English KDE if I choose Norwegian in the
> > RedHat installer. And I guess that's one of the reasons why we need a
> > conversion table, no? ;-)
>
> The glibc at least has only a no_NO - and I can only guess it's our nb.

Correct.  Most users, if not all, also think "Norwegian, bokmål" when they 
hear No.

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