Tackar! // Mvh Ola
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:44:40PM +0100, Daniel Nylander wrote: > Package: horde3 > Version: N/A > Severity: normal > > > This package includes a sv_SE.po file which contains the Swedish translation > of the program strings. > > Using a country part in a translation file is a discouraged practice > except in very few cases (such as pt_BR). > > Using a sv_SE.po file instead of a sv.po file prevents users of sv_FI, > and all other existing and future locales for > Swedish to benefit from the Swedish translation of the program. > > The language does not vary among countries and, again, this is not the > general practice for programs localization. > > Please forward this to the upstream author along with this explanation. > > You can also mention that the bug probably occurs for other > translations. In general PO files should only be named after the > ISO_639 code of the given language and should not use a country part > with a ISO-3166 code. The only accepted expections to this are: > > -pt_BR for Brazilian Portuguese and pt alone for "standard Portuguese" > -zh_CN for "Simplified Chinese" use in mailand China and Singapore > -zh_TW for "Traditional Chinese" used in Taiwan > > Lat both are different ways of wrinting Chinese, not to be confused > with Mandarin/Cantonese which are different ways of *speaking* > Chinese....both being written the same way. > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.2 > Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
