Maybe making some kind of fallback would be a solution? http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/summary/root.html
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/summary/en.html It may be the same kind of language, but we may need different locales for translation. The only thing wrong with current en-US approach is trouble with using locale name in routes, I think. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Sven Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > I stumble across this bit every time I start doing something "real" > with Rails I18n and this makes me think. > > For Rails we've picked the default locale :"en-US" because we've > thought it'd be the most defensive claim to make. Nobody could really > argue for picking anything else because this is in fact the locale to > which Rails always (implicitely) was localized. > > But it is also artificial in that Rails I18n itself does not support > locale fallbacks (e.g. looking up :en when :"en-US" is not available) > so when we work with only Rails we either have to use en-US literally > as a locale or somehow map it manually. (E.g. when one wants to use a > route like /en/:ressource one needs to map :en to :en-US so that Rails > can find its own translations. How cumbersome.) > > I guess way more than 80% of all applications will be perfectly happy > with only supporting language locales and ignoring the country/region > tag (like :en, :fr, :es, :de, ...). > > So my feeling is that we should change the Rails default locale > from :"en-US" to just :en as long as it is still possible. > > That might expose us to arguments that we implicitely define English > as American English but on the one hand I'd say that the gained > simplicity and convenience outweighs this and on the other hand we > might argue that Rails actually always implicitely already did that. > > WDYT? > -- Yaroslav Markin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rails-i18n" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
