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Bug#237821: ITP: mozilla-firefox-locale-ca -- Mozilla FireFox Catalan Language Package



Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:37:48PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > FYI, since version 0.8-4 the Debian version of mozilla-firefox has an
> > automatic locale selection (stolen from mozilla-thunderbird). It would
> > be a good idea that your package support that. 
> 
> I based my package completely on yours, it was a lot cleaner than most
> of the mozilla-locale packages out there. :)
> 
> > You just have to create a file in /var/lib/mozilla-firefox/locales.d/
> > containing the text:
> > ca:ES
> > 
> > For more information, have a look at mozilla-firefox-locale-fr, or
> > simply ask me.
> 
> I have one doubt, yes.
> 
> My upstream decided to use ca-CA inside the xpi, instead of ca-ES,
> ca-AD, ca-FR or whatever. Currently, the only locale that exists for
> Catalan is ca_ES. They used ca-CA just to not have "Spain" inside the
> region name, although I warned them that the only correct locale, like
> it or not, is ca_ES.

Do the ca_* locales actually differ substantially? If not, it's probably
best to use plain "ca".

> Does the autolocale support have into account the region name when it
> selects the locale, or just the language part in a locale?

I don't know about this specific implementation, but generally locales
are supposed to prefer the full language_REGION if available, and use
the more generic specification as fallback.


Thiemo

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