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Re: PR libc/2931: patch to add nb_NO locale
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 09:59:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: PR libc/2931: patch to add nb_NO locale
- Bcc: Petter Reinholdtsen <petter dot reinholdtsen at usit dot uio dot no>
- References: <E19RXpi-0002YG-00@minerva.hungry.com> <3FA75C2D.8030505@redhat.com>
[Ulrich Drepper]
> I've introduced nb_NO now and at the same time deprecated no_NO.
Thank you very much. When this new locale is available in most
distributions, we can start renaming translations in the source
packages containing norwegian bokål translation.
> The latter is only an alias now.
Making no_NO an alias make it impossible for gettext to find the old
translation files, and also make it impossible to use the
LANGUAGES=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no trick to use both translation directories
in the transition phase.
For these reasons, I believe it would be easier for the users if both
locales exist a bit longer. When most distributions have the nb_NO
locale available, and most packages are using this language code as
the file name for the bokmål translation, the no_NO locale can be
removed for god.
Do you agree?