New language codes?
Asgeir Frimannsson
asgeirf at redhat.com
Fri Oct 3 01:53:22 UTC 2008
----- "Asgeir Frimannsson" <asgeirf at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- "Piotr Drąg" <piotrdrag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Asgeir Frimannsson pisze:
> > > Here are the proposed renames. I'm not an expert, and some codes
> > would make more sense without a country-qualifier I guess (country
> > qualifier is ISO-wise optional).
> > >
> > > pl -> pl-PL
> > >
> >
> > Doesn't make ANY sense, because Polish is spoken only in one
> country.
> > I
> > believe there are more situations like this on the list...
>
> I totally agree :) same for e.g. Norwegian like nb-NO and nn-NO.
>
> However, until we have a proper fix in publican (or have confirmed
> that nothing breaks without country-qualifiers [except translation
> statistics]), I think it's better to live with it for now. I am not
> proposing this as a permanent solution.
Just to clear up any confusion:
No, we are not planning on changing the language codes by adding country qualifiers. This was just an attempt to make the documentation build in publican, which seemed to have a rather unjustified 'preference' of LANG-COUNTRY style codes. We have confirmed that simple LANG codes doesn't break anything (except generating translation reports - which is now fixed upstream), and hence any changes as proposed in the earlier emails were never committed.
What we *might* do at some point is change the way we represent codes to conform to RFC3066, i.e. en_US -> en-US and sr_Latn to sr-Latn.
cheers,
asgeir
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