Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Clarification about language tag

[Christian M. <mar...@fr...>]

>> "DM" == Dan Mueth <mu...@al...> writes:

[...]

[SF seem to filter some doain name like wanaddo.fr, so I can't post to
this list with my current address. Somebody konw where I can complain
about this feature ?]

> On a technical level, it doesn't work because (a) we technically didn't
> translate the categories into 'en', and (b) we don't list 'en' as one of
> the supported locales. (We list the supported locales in
> cl/templates/Makefile.am.)  So, supporting 'en' is about as hard as
> writing the po file for it.

en is the same as C no ? 

About supported locale, if nobody is already working on French
translation, I can do that.

> I always assumed the standard was to use the fallback locale, C, for
> documents in English, and that there wasn't much point in setting one's
> locale to 'en' or setting the locale in an OMF file to 'en'.  Of course
> English is my first language and I'm no expert on locales, so I may be
> missing something.  Is there a reason why we should install English 
> documents under both the C locale and en locale?  Or do some distributions 
> not put english documents in the C locale and instead put them under the 
> en locale?

Read http://bugs.debia.org/144730 for full explanation.

Christian