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Subject: FW: [Future] i18n errors
From: David Faure <David.Faure () cramersystems ! com>
Date: 1999-12-14 16:33:24
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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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David Faure
faure@kde.org - KDE developer
david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake
david.faure@cramersystems.com - Cramer Systems
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