Re: [vdr] improving i18n-to-gettext.pl

On Mittwoch, 15. August 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote:

Hi Matthias,

Matthias Schwarzott wrote:

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General question: Why is the locale dir called de_DE and not just de - as that seems what most other programs on my system do?

because German is spoken in more then one country: de_DE, de_AT and I think de_CH and more. I havn't not list with all locales here now.

Yeah, german is spoken in other countries. Is there then a reason to restrict the translation to germany?

some example: wget installs the file /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo this is to provide translations for "all" de* locales. Not just the german one, but also for austria and swiss.

Matthias