On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:45:23AM -0700,
 Trevor Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
 a message of 16 lines which said:

> >It seems more natural to use the standard C locale names to me (the
> >usual "pt_PT" and "pt_BR" for Portuguese/Portugal culture and
> >Portuguese/Brazil culture) , but I'm open to suggestions when that
> >problem arise, and I'm sure there are already standards we can
> >follow in relation to that.
> 
> RFCs 4646 and 4647 cover this convention. 

No, "language tags" (specified in RFC 4646) use the dash as a
separator, unlike the POSIX locales. So, it is pt-BR.

See http://www.langtag.net/

> Most internet protocols (http etc) use the same convention, so we'd
> be in good company.

And formats like XML, too, use RFC 4646.

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