Re: Bits about countrychooser and languagechooser
Quoting Konstantinos Margaritis (markos@debian.org):
> > For instance, Greek would be shown as follows:
> >
> > gr_GR Choose this......in greek (Greece)
> > gr Choose this......in greek (Other countries)
> >
>
> actually it's el_GR.
Yeah, I found this after sending this mail.....but you got the point
of course.
>
> > Users from, say, Cyprus or Macedonia, could then choose "gr" and
> > then be presented with all possible combinations, according to
> > /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED.
>
> actually it's only Cyprus that might choose greek. Macedonia (the part
> which we call FYROM) has its own language. There is no need to
> include a separate field for the greek part of Macedonia. This is
I thought that some part of the Macedonia country has Greek as
language....or maybe there is a greek "minority" in FYROM (Former
Yugolavian Republic of Macedonia....for those not aware of european
politics subtlenesses, this country is contested by Greece and Bulgaria).
For details, I found http://www.oasis-hotel.gr/greece/macedonia2.htm
quite interesting though incredibly complicated...
> actually quite a sensitive matter here but I'll avoid getting into
> politics.
I know this is sensitive....You'll notice that I didn't take turkish
language for examples about Cyprus...:-) (I think that Debian users
and developers are way over such political struggles....we should just
try to avoid forgetting some people's sensitivity even if we don't
really adhere with the strong nationalism it often involves)
>
> > By the way, when it comes to greek, I see that no greek locale,
> > including gr_GR, is shown in SUPPORTED....Pretty surprising to me.
>
> yes the locale name is el_GR or more preferably el_GR.UTF-8 (since
> ISO-8859-7 will be eventually replaced by the more flexible UTF-8,
> and about time too). After discussion, it has been decided that the
> default locale for a greek installation will be the UTF-8 one.
Yes, sorry for the mess. s/gr/el should be made in my mail.
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