Re: Help about localization packages
Arne Goetje wrote:
> Christian Perrier wrote:
>> Of course the very quirky way of upstream to name its files does not
>> help. Have they ever heard about ISO 639 and ISO 3166?
>
> It's not quirky at all. In fact they are very correct, and in many times
> "over-correct" (see: RFC 4646). They simply state the language, writing
> script and country for all language packs they provide. That is
> according to RFC 4646 and IMHO how language packs and locales (!) should
> be handled.
I would add that I recall discussions on their ML about introducing variants for
the French language itself. The fact is that, depending on the context, some
strings may need to be translated differently. So it is possible that, in the
future, localization will be further split.
>>> To do that, I begin with the help of the iceweasel-l10n-* packages.
>> Please note that some of them are, imho, incorrect:
>>
>> iceweasel-l10n-uk-ua
>> iceweasel-l10n-cy-gb
>> iceweasel-l10n-dz-bt
>> iceweasel-l10n-et-ee
>> .../...
>> indeed all those using a country code modifier, except pt-br, zh-cn
>> and zh-tw
>
> not incorrect at all, but maybe "over-correct" :). See my above
> statement. I think in these cases the country code is redundant, however.
Ok. Many thank for all your information.
So, unless collision, I keep only the two letters in the debian package name.
The exceptions for now are:
- es-es
- es-ve
- zh-cn
- zh-tw
For the language name, in the package description, I only talk about the
language itself with few exception where the country is also stated.
These exceptions are the same as before:
Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Venezuela), Chinese (China), and Chinese (Taiwan)
and two more exceptions: Bokmaal (Norway) and Nynorsk (Norway) as it is
difficult to guess the country from the language name (but perhaps, I'm too
European-centric here. If so, tell me.)
Thank you very much for your comments
Regards,
Vincent
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