On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Danilo Segan wrote:
> "fr" would imply using "fr(FR)". All the other cases must be
By which logic, "en" implies "en(EN)", but EN isn't a whole ISO
country, so do we use "en(GB)" as the ISO unit associated with "England", or "en(US)" as the counrty with the most English speakers ? (I will continue to be unhappy with "en(US)").
No, I didn't mean to imply that "FR" was choosen as a default for "fr" because of "textual similarity", but rather, because France, with ISO 3166 code of "FR", is the "originator" of French language "fr" (perhaps this is not a good enough reasoning, and your reasoning based on population might be more adequate, but that's another topic).
This would imply that we would have "en(GB)" as default for "en" and "pt(PT)" (if "PT" is indeed a code for Portugal) for "pt".
Portugese (pt iirc) is worse; iirc pt(BR) massively outweighs pt(PT).
The idea was exactly to try to limit these "collisions". The Brazilian user would actually prefer to use "BR" (which would default to "BR(pt)" and be the same as "pt(BR)"), same as US user would probably prefer to use "US" (which would default to "US(en)", being equivalent to "en
(US)").
I believe that everyone can be satisfied at least a bit -- I don't expect Brazilians to mind that using just "pt" will not give them adequate keymap, if "BR" would do the trick. Still, Portuguese would be very happy that their keymap is considered "default" for "pt".
I think we have established that this is an area where people's prejudices will cause them to make unexpected assumptions.
Yes, quite so. I was just trying to remedy that by providing *both* choices -- based on country, and based on language. So, if one Brazilian fellow actually insisted to access the keymap using the language name, it wouldn't (or shouldn't) be a problem for him to use "pt(BR)".
But, if we count in the prejudices, there'll probably never be a perfect solution. If there were, there would be no need to discuss this at all, and we would continue with the current trend of assigning keymap names on the "when it comes" basis.
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