[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2003-01-16 01:04 UTC:
> >Also out of interest, I noticed that en was an alias of en_US, is there
> >a reason for this?
>
> Historical reasons? Because Americans wrote the software? Because the
> population of America is larger then that of Britain? Because it
> doesn't really matter?
To end this eternal thread, could someone please add regular expressions
or some other wildcard notation to the locale-alias mechanics?
Since Xlib cares neither about the currency code nor about much else
that is country dependent, for most locales it really should say
/^(en|fr|de|es|...)(_[A-Z]{2})?\.UTF-8$/ etc.
IMHO, US software authors hesitate rightly to use anything other than
"en_US" in their software, because they don't use the spelling
convention that one might associate with "en" or "en_GB".
Markus
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