Dear all,

OpenOffice recently introduced language support for Valencian RACV
grammar, using the nonstandard ca_XR language tag. This is presumably
different from the AVL grammar (OpenOffice uses ca_XV) which also exists
and already has two global LINGUAS: "ca_XV" that was at some point used
by LibreOffice, but is now unused and replaced by the local flag
"ca_valencia", and "ca@valencia" used by Calligra and others.

If I understand correctly, POSIX locales use
language[_territory][@modifier] format, and the X in the "territory" is
used to denote a non-standard extension. I am however unsure whether
ca_XR is a correct use of "territory".

Debian for example uses ca-ES@valencia for Valencian AVL, which appears
to be based on the IETF BCP-47 (basically language[-region][-variant])
language tag ca-ES-valencia.

Is it ok to add a ca_XR or ca@valencia-racv USE_EXPAND to LINGUAS or is
there a better solution? Should LINGUAS try to imitate POSIX or BCP-47?


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn


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