From kde-i18n-doc  Tue Dec 14 16:33:24 1999
From: David Faure <David.Faure () cramersystems ! com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 16:33:24 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: FW: [Future] i18n errors
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And another language mispelling (no_NY), together with 
a reference on how to name languages :-)

> Kaixo!
> 
> On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 03:56:42PM -0000, David Faure wrote:
> 
> >> it should be 'no@nynorsk' instead of 'no_NY' (if it is, as I
> >> supose, for Nynorsk variant of Norwegian language)
> > 
> > no@nynorsk ?
> > Now _that_ is a funny looking language abbreviation ! :-)
> > I suppose it's because it's a variant and not a country...
> 
> Yes; the syntax is:  ll[_CC[.EEEE]][@vvvvv]
> 
> with:	ll: language 2 letters iso code, in lowercase.
> 	CC: country 2 letters iso code, in uppercase.
> 	EEEEE: the charset encoding, nothing is standardized here :-( so
> 		it is better avoided; zh_TW.Big5 is the only one that
> 		really set a fixed way for 'EEEE' (and maybe zh_CN.GB2312)
> 	vvvvv: a variant when none of the above can be enough to distinguish
> 		them. 'no@nynorsk' is really the only one that is widely
used.
> 		There are also the *@euro, intended for LC_MONETARY in fact
> 		(eg 'fr_FR' uses FRF as monetary unit, but 'fr_FR@euro'
> 		uses EUR as monetary unit).
> 		And es@tradicional, intended to force sorting order
> 		to the tradtional order ( LC_COLLATE=es_ES uses so called
> 		'modern' ordering: a,b,c,d,e,...,k,l,m,n,ñ,...; while
> 		LC_COLLATE=es@tradicional uses traditional sorting:
> 		a,b,c,ch,d,e,.....,k,l,ll,m,n,ñ,...).
> 		I think a similar sorting order duality exists for a baltic
> 		language.
>  
> > But then, how should British English be named ? People speak "en_GB" in
> > a lot of islands, and even in Australia (which was BTW the reason for
> > en_GB in KDE, though unmaintainned those days).
> 
> In NZ for exemple a setting like LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en_AU:en_GB:en
> would be a good choice.
> 
> > I thought _XX was the only way to refer to language variants,
> 
> Problem is when variants happen inside of the same country; 
> as for Norwegian.
> 
> -- 
> Ki ça vos våye bén,
> Pablo Saratxaga
> 
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