[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] admiyo-freeipa-0034-2-Metadata-I18N.patch

[Adam Young]

On 09/20/2010 10:44 AM, John Dennis wrote:
> On 09/20/2010 10:19 AM, Adam Young wrote:
>> On 09/20/2010 10:07 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> And a small nit. The help for the argument says 2-character language
>>> code. This ignores the language subtags (e.g. en-US).
>>
>> If we get to the point that we are differentiating between en_US and
>> en_AS, we will have won this battle.  I'll update the Docs once we start
>> doing locale specific files!
>
> FYI, I have seen i18n fail when the country code (i.e. dialect) is 
> omitted and only the language code is used. One might expect simply 
> setting the language code would be sufficient and a default country 
> code would be selected by default but there seem to parts of the 
> system which can't deal with this. I saw the problem when setting the 
> LANG environment variable and glibc's locale function failed to work 
> correctly. Not sure if the same problem would exist in GNU gettext 
> when selecting the message catalog, but why take the chance?
>
This covers the doc string
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