On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:40:02PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:39:44AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > > They are in
> > > > language_country.codeset format.
> > > > ja_JP is Japan,
> > > > pt_BR is Brazil.
> > > >
> > > > What is the problem?
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Do you really think that there are no Japanese people outside of Japan?
> >
> > Then they should use ja_CA or whatever they want.
This is not related to what we're speaking about. ja_CA doesn't mean "I
speak japanese and live in canada", but "I speak the variant of japanese as
spoken in canada".
> No, this locale does not exist.
Well, I would say that gettext fallback to ja if ja_CA does not exist.
But I agree that it's a bad idea to use the country part of the local to
guess the place where I live. This field is meant for dialects. For example,
if I speak the brazillian variant of portuguese, I'll use pt_BR. Even if I
live currently in france. Or, if I want to see "colour" instead of "color",
I'll set my local to en_GB (or en_US, I can't remember what is said where ;).
But it does not give you any information on my actual geographical location,
just the language variant I want to use.
Thanks, Mt.
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