Bug#464511: detect a fully vaild .po file as non-valid

[Eddy Petrișor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org> writes:
> > Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 20:01:32 schrieben Sie:
>
> > > What we were told was that all language codes are two letters followed
> > > possibly by an underscore and two more letters (in capitals).  If this
> > > isn't true, I'd be happy to change lintian, but I know nothing about
> > > this whole area, so I really need some sort of canonical documentation
> > > or i18n expert to tell me what to do.
>
> > Mh... should we contact the i18n for this issue? 
> > According to wikipedia (the german one) nds is the abbrev. for 
> > the "Niederdeutsche Sprache" or also called "Plattdüütsch" [1].
> >
> > There is also a niederdeutsche Version of wikipedia [2].
>
> debian-i18n folks:
>
> Currently, the regex used by lintian to validate po file names is:
>
>     /^[a-z]{2,2}(_[A-Z]{2,2})?\.po$/
>
> so it expects language codes in the form:
>
>     nn
>     nn_NN
>
> It looks like this is an ISO 639-2 language code.  Should lintian be
> allowing for those in po file names as well?  In other words, should I
> also permit:
>
>     nnn

Yes. There are languages that do not have a 639-2 iso code, but have a 
693-3 iso code (example Creoles and pidgins, French-based)

>     nnn_NN

Probably not as in most cases those languages in the ones above (no 
639-2 code) are spoken only in some specific regions (although, 
Romany/tsigane comes to mind - code rom - do not confuse with Romanian)

> I don't know anything about this area and am happy to follow someone
> else's guidance.

Wormux has a cpf translation.

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Regards,
EddyP
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