https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50431

--- Comment #14 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> (In reply to comment #12)
> > (In reply to comment #11)
> > > (In reply to comment #9)
> > > > I don't think that's a good outcome. If there isn't a description in 
> > > > your
> > > > language (in this case, pt), we shouldn't magically tell you that we've 
> > > > given
> > > > you a message in a different language (we don't do this for the MW 
> > > > messages
> > > > framework, for instance).
> > > 
> > > BTW this comment means WONTFIXing this whole bug.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > This is just me saying that I don't think that instead of "Chien", if it
> > doesn't exist in French we should give users "Dog -- OMG We gave you this
> > message in English even though you asked for it in French!", which feels
> > significant over-kill.
> 
> Then I guess your point is that pt-br and pt are more similar, so falling
> back from pt to pt-br is acceptable, while fr and en are not this case.

Yes.

> However technically pt-br and pt have the same relationship as fr and en,
> or we'll have to compose some language similarity table ourselves, and manage
> to resolve many edge cases (eg. dialects).

Oh. I assumed the jQuery.i18n (or one of the other JS, MW-independent tools
that the Language Engineering team have built) would have this built in. Is
that not the case?

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