locale name for sub-country dialects?
Robert Millan
rmh@aybabtu.com
Wed Mar 29 09:58:00 GMT 2006
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,
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Robert Millan
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