Re: Automating of localizations
Alastair McKinstry dijo [Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:27:12PM +0000]:
> > MX +1924-09909 America/Mexico_City Central Time - most locations
> > MX +2105-08646 America/Cancun Central Time - Quintana Roo
> > MX +2058-08937 America/Merida Central Time - Campeche, Yucatan
> > MX +2540-10019 America/Monterrey Central Time - Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas
> > MX +2313-10625 America/Mazatlan Mountain Time - S Baja, Nayarit, Sinaloa
> > MX +2838-10605 America/Chihuahua Mountain Time - Chihuahua
> > MX +2904-11058 America/Hermosillo Mountain Standard Time - Sonora
> > MX +3232-11701 America/Tijuana Pacific Time
> >
> > We do not have different timezones for each of those areas, but they
> > roughly (even politically) define our country, and were a region of
> > Mexico to change timezone, it would probably be reflected by this
> > division.
> Yes, the zone.tab file is well designed for the task. The third column
> _is_ the official timezone name, even if in modern times the actual time
> is identical in two areas (eg. America/Chichuahua, America/Hermosillo).
> If picking a default, the first line matching the country code is the
> most populous.
A question: _Only_ the first line regards the most populous area,
right? It is right here, but the rest of the lines are in what seems
to be completely a random ordering.
> > I think we could even do away with the %lang_map declaration in
> > locale-config-skolelinux file conffiles.d/timezone - This is a hash
> > based on the name of the locale. The locale, in my case, is es_MX - a
> > simple regex would do:
> >
> > $lang =~ /^([a-z]{2}) # language code
> > _([A-Z]{2}) # country code
> > (?:\.([A-Z0-9\-]+))? # optional charset
> > (?:@(.+))?/x; # optional extra information
> >
> > This was able to parse for me every locale specified in
> > /etc/locale.gen and (adding at the beginning '(\S+)\s+' for the
> > language name) also in /etc/locale.alias - We can infer from our
> > chosen locale and libc6's /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab all the needed
> > information for finding out the corresponding timezones.
> >
> > Like it? :-)
> >
> Yes. Thats how it was designed :-).
Ok... So, Dagfinn, could this scheme be used for conffiles.d/timezone?
libc6 is 'required', not 'essential'... Why? I cannot find anything
currently providing its (undeniably) essential functionality...
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