Chris,
We've got this in JSword (not sure it works) for a while now for the next
release. We used the codes as you've given here. But in the conf file you have
ur_Deva. We're not expecting an _ but a -. We can change the code. Please
advise.
In Him,
DM
On Feb 10, 2013, at 5:56 AM, Chris Little <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just a quick heads up:
>
> In general, locale codes (the Lang= field of .confs) can have subtags that
> indicate region, script, etc. Ideally these should be dealt with in some
> fashion by front ends since they identify important distinctions (in the eyes
> of the module maker or publisher at least).
>
> When unknown subtags are encountered, it's probably best to recursively fall
> back to the tag minus its right-most subtag. For example, if 'en-Latn-US' is
> unknown, fall back to 'en-Latn'. If that is unknown, fall back to 'en'.
> (Hopefully nearly all language subtags are known.)
>
> We should handle this in the library, but currently don't. :(
>
>
> As a specific case in point:
> We now have two Urdu translations. They're the same translation and differ in
> their script (one is Arabic, the other Devanagari). Their language codes (as
> of the 1.2.1 release just made, which corrected the code for the Devanagari
> version) are: ur (Urdu in Arabic script--the usual script for Urdu) and
> ur-Deva (Urdu in Devanagari script).
>
> Possible behaviors are to categorize the ur-Deva module as belonging to an
> unknown language (bad), to fall back and categorize it as simply Urdu
> (better, but certainly confusing if the language name is written in Arabic
> and the module is itself written in Devanagari), or to categorize it
> separately as Urdu written in Devanagari (best).
>
> For implementers who localize the language name, Urdu written in Arabic is
> written "اردو". Urdu written in Devanagari is written "उर्दू".
>
> --Chris
>
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