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locale name for sub-country dialects?
- From: Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu dot com>
- To: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:58:58 +0200
- Subject: locale name for sub-country dialects?
- Organisation: free as in freedom
Hi!
How should sub-language dialects that, instead of matching a country
(ISO-3166-1), match a sub-country (ISO-3166-2) division, be specified in locale
values?
POSIX (XSI) reads:
<quote>
If the locale value has the form:
language[_territory][.codeset]
it refers to an implementation-provided locale, where settings of language, territory, and codeset are implementation-defined.
</quote>
Do we handle this with ISO-3166-2 codes, or are generic @something modifiers
preferred?
And in case @something modifiers are preferred, do we use the name of the
language variant in English, or in the local language itself?
Thanks,
--
Robert Millan