Why two locales for Hebrew for Israel"

Bruno Haible bruno@clisp.org
Mon Sep 1 20:57:00 GMT 2003


> Both locales iw_IL and he_IL seem to be locales for Hebrew language in
> Israel.  Why are there two of these?

Backward compatibility with user habits, I'd assume. The ISO-639 code
for Hebrew has changed from iw to he in 1989. But it's only since 2001/2002
that Qt and KDE supports he_IL too.

Bruno



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