Hi,
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Adrien Destugues
<pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What would be more preferred. Use the dash? Or an underscore? Perhaps
we can use the dash in this case because there is no relation between
the zh-Hans and zh.
And capitalization, should we use the ISO version? so zh-Hans? Or
shall we capitalize it completely, like pt_BR?
Don't mix them. pt_BR is portuguese, variant spoken in brazil.
zh-Hans and zh-Hant are, for localization purposes, entirely different
langages. (they read the same, but use different alphabets). Another example
of that would be the two writings of norwegian - nynorsk and bokmal (I hope
I get the spelling right...).
The result is that there is no 'zh' language at all. It's either zh-Hans or
zh-Hant. Go with ISO, and that should be fine as it's also what ICU uses ?
ICU seems to use the normal dash even for language-country locales,
like pt-BR [1]. So in this sense it might have to do with the demands
that POSIX makes, but this really goes into foreign territory. KDE
uses zh_CN for simplified Chinese. I understand the difference and why
zh-Hans is better, but i am wondering whether we should keep
compatibility in mind.
Unless of course, the LC_ALL and Haiku locale is unrelated.
Regards,
N>
[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
