On 08/15/07 14:02, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
On Mittwoch, 15. August 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote:
Hi Matthias,
Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
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.
I just tried renaming VDR's "de_DE" locale to "de" and did
LC_ALL=de_AT ./vdr
but it came up with the default English texts. Then I renamed "de" to "de_AT" and did the same again, and I got the German texts.
I was hoping that gettext would be a little more intelligent and look for
- an exact match ("de_AT") - a default ("de") - any suitable language ("de_DE")
but apparently that's not the case - unless I'm doing something wrong.
Klaus