PR libc/2931: patch to add nb_NO locale

Petter Reinholdtsen pere@hungry.com
Tue Nov 4 08:59:00 GMT 2003


[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?



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