https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=94901
--- Comment #4 from bmarcelly <marce...@club-internet.fr> --- An advice from developers at l10n would be very useful beacause they decide for a new language. See https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Adding_a_new_language_or_locale The description of the 3 language variables in the Wiki page Predefined variables should be rewritten. What follows is my understanding. $(lang), $(langid) and $(vlang) refer to the user interface language, and are expressed as strings. $(lang) returns the code for a country using the language. The reference to ISO 639 and ISO 3166 is incorrect. In fact the values are numeric and follow in general the country code used for telephone calls. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes Examples: 01 = US, 33 = FR, 49 = DE But for some languages, the code seems attributed arbitrarily, examples : 96 = arabic (96x is used by Maldives, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman) 86 = simplified chinese (this is the code for China) 88 = traditional chinese (this is the code for Taiwan). $(langid) returns the language code used by the Windows Language Code Identifier (LCID). The links to Microsoft documents are outdated. Current link : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc233965.aspx [MS-LCID]: Windows Language Code Identifier (LCID) Reference The language code is returned in decimal notation, whereas the LCID reference uses hexadecimal. Examples: 1033 = 0x0409 = en-US 1036 = 0x040c = fr-FR 1031 = 0x0407 = de-DE $(vlang) returns a string containing the letter-code ISO 639 for the language and possibly the letter-code ISO 3166 of the country where the language variant is spoken. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_code and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code Examples: en-US, en-GB, fr, de -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
