On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:45:00PM +0100, Daniel Nylander wrote: > > This package includes a sv_SE.po file which contains the Swedish translation > of the program strings. > > Using a country part in a translation file is a discouraged practice > except in very few cases (such as pt_BR). > > Using a sv_SE.po file instead of a sv.po file prevents users of sv_FI, > and all other existing and future locales for > Swedish to benefit from the Swedish translation of the program. > > The language does not vary among countries and, again, this is not the > general practice for programs localization. > > Please forward this to the upstream author along with this explanation. > > You can also mention that the bug probably occurs for other > translations. In general PO files should only be named after the > ISO_639 code of the given language and should not use a country part > with a ISO-3166 code. The only accepted expections to this are: > > -pt_BR for Brazilian Portuguese and pt alone for "standard Portuguese" > -zh_CN for "Simplified Chinese" use in mailand China and Singapore > -zh_TW for "Traditional Chinese" used in Taiwan > > Lat both are different ways of wrinting Chinese, not to be confused > with Mandarin/Cantonese which are different ways of *speaking* > Chinese....both being written the same way.
Every single package related to horde show this behavior. I believe that it is their standard practice. If you would be able to provide an authoritative reference that discourages the practice, I will forward it to the upstream authors. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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