Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Clarification about language tag

[David M. <da...@lu...>]

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:22:43AM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:

> 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?

C means the currently defined system locale. It just means "use the
default". It does not mean "use English".

I'm not an expert on locales either, although since the LDP is
involved in a massive i18n effort right now, I'm getting there!

IMO in SK they should be under en, not C. A document would never say
that its language is the default. No, a doc *has* a language! It is a
program config that might have as *its* configured locale, use the
default. Make sense?

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