Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 01.02.05 23:21:01: > > Hi. > > I'm somewhat confused about the right extension of filenames > for languages with sublanguages like .pt_BR or .zh_TW. I came > across this issue while working on the pages for the sarge install > manual which will include a pt_BR translation (but a pt_PT translation > is also in preparation, so going for .pt isn't possible).
Please note that it's not always possible to replace xx_YY by a xx default locale since zh is not valid but zh_TW and zh_CN are. > The current policy for older release notes and install manuals > (regarding zh_*) seems to be: HTML files -> .zh-tw, .zh-cn, etc. > other formats -> .zh_TW, .zh_CN, etc. However, I wasn't able to find any > motivation for this confusing naming scheme. > > The default configuration of apache seems to imply .zh-tw to be correct, > but this doesn't explain why we use another scheme for the non-HTML > files? > > Anyone who can shed some light on this? (IIRC we had this discussion > already about one or two years ago on this list but I seem not be able > to find the right keywords for a search...) I hope it's OK to extent this discussion to directory layouts/filenames since this is indeed very inconsistent. I was also not able to find the discussion but a related thread opened by Osamu: http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2002/05/msg00118.html The best argument for pt_BR is that debiandoc-sgml expects this and the Makefile is simple without need to substitute. Quoting Josip Rodin (http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2002/11/msg00080.html): "documentname-languagecode.typeextension is simply wrong, _especially_ when there are hyphens in the document name, too." He refers to another discussion a few years ago. >From a discussion on qref-developers (private list) (New directory structure (was New translation -- Chinese (Simplified)) 2003-06-28 00:35): The problem is that sgml doesn't support "_" in entity names, so it's not possible to use <![%lang-pt_BR;[ <!ENTITY full-title "Refer�ncia Debian"> ]]> but <![%lang-pt-BR;[ <!ENTITY full-title "Refer�ncia Debian"> ]]> use pt-br, zh-tw, zh-cn for package names (debian/rules), because _ and capitals are invalid!? (Another problem using pt_BR would be incompatibility with older "reference-pt-br" packages, so we have to use pt-br.) (What file and directory names should be used, pt_BR or pt-br?) Osamu preferred pt-br instead of pt_BR at least for directories but I cannot remember why. Jens ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193
