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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:21:29 +0200
From: Piotr Engelking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: help2man: Adds incorrect territory to locale
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Package: help2man
Version: 1.36.1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
In 1.36.1, the following snippet was added to help2man.PL:
# Add default territory to locale.
$locale .=3D "_\U$locale" if $locale =3D~ /^[a-z]{2}$/;
This is hopelessly broken for many languages. Uppercasing an ISO 639-1 code
often doesn't result in a valid ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (e.g. in the case o=
f
en [English], or uk [Ukrainian]). Even if it does, the produced code often
doesn't stand for a territory where the language is primarily spoken (e.g.
in the case of be [Belarusian] or cs [Czech], BE stands for Belgium, and CS
for Serbia and Montenegro).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12
Locale: LANG=3DC, LC_CTYPE=3Dpl_PL.UTF8 (charmap=3DUTF-8)
Versions of packages help2man depends on:
ii perl 5.8.7-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extract=
ion
Versions of packages help2man recommends:
ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization utili=
ties
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 Using libc functions for inter=
nati
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From: Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Bug#336298: help2man: Adds incorrect territory to locale
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 12:21:29PM +0200, Piotr Engelking wrote:
>In 1.36.1, the following snippet was added to help2man.PL:
>
> # Add default territory to locale.
> $locale .= "_\U$locale" if $locale =~ /^[a-z]{2}$/;
>
>This is hopelessly broken for many languages. Uppercasing an ISO 639-1 code
>often doesn't result in a valid ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code (e.g. in the case of
>en [English], or uk [Ukrainian]). Even if it does, the produced code often
>doesn't stand for a territory where the language is primarily spoken (e.g.
>in the case of be [Belarusian] or cs [Czech], BE stands for Belgium, and CS
>for Serbia and Montenegro).
I think that you misunderstand the transformation which is actually
occuring here: the intent is to change a locale specified as "fr" to
"fr_FR".
The problem is that, at least on Debian systems, "fr" is not a valid
locale, whereas "fr_FR" is.
Note: this is merely a default for the case where the specified locale
is exactly two characters. If you specify a locale of "fr_BE", then no
change is made; the emitted manual page will use the Belgian varient of
French, presuming such a catalog is available.
--bod
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