On 06/15/2010 08:53 PM, Ken Sharp wrote:
On 15/06/10 10:28, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
That's just an artifact of how the translation statistics tool works.
But Wine will use LANG_ENGLISH SUBLANG_DEFAULT if there is no
SUBLANG_NEUTRAL translation. Duplicating unneeded resources makes them
prone for bitrotting.
I was told that US English = Default and British English = Neutral, and
that all the other English sublangs pick up Neutral except en_US.
So, are you saying what actually happens is that it first looks for
NEUTRAL, and if it doesn't find that it looks for DEFAULT? And that
NEUTRAL should be British English? If so, why is there a DEFAULT at all?
I was saying that LANG_ENGLISH SUBLANG_DEFAULT is special aka the
ultimate fallback for *all* other languages. So if a resource isn't
available in a language (neither in the country specific sublang nor in
the neutral sublang) it will eventually fall back to LANG_ENGLISH
SUBLANG_DEFAULT. That includes also the other English sublangs; thus
there is no point in duplicating the LANG_ENGLISH SUBLANG_DEFAULT
resources in LANG_ENGLISH SUBLANG_NEUTRAL as the result is the exact
same, achieved with less code.
I wondered why there was also a ENGLISH_US in kernel32/nls.
The NLS files are not really a translation, they are the "localization"
part even though they do contain some translations.
If it actually looks for NEUTRAL first it would save a lot of
duplication and would make the translations easier.
Hope that makes sense.
Not really. Please have a look at http://wiki.winehq.org/SublangNeutral
it describes how the fallback works in Windows. Why they did it that way
you probably have to ask them; Wine just has to follow it.
bye
michael
