> > Why not just *.af.po? Are there other (incompatible) version of > Afrikaans besides af_ZA? > Surprizingly yes :) There are six official af locales: af_ZA af_NA (Using N$ as currency for example) af_BW (Currency BWP - uses French-style date writing) etc. etc. for Southern Africa, they are close but non-identical.
More importantly tgere is the BIG surprize: af_AR: This one has is as different from af_ZA as fr_GH is from fr_FR. During the anglo boer war, a large number of PoW's were sent to the (then British colony of) Argentina. Most of them never returned, instead founding several towns in Southern Argentina where the official language is Afrikaans, but the language has developed independently for more than a century and Afrikaans by it's nature is incredibly prone to rapid-development (so much so that Afrikaans speakers today struggle to read books written in the 1950's). In short -yes, specifying ZA is actually important. A.J. -- A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect - OpenLab International +27 82 726 5103 http://www.getopenlab.com http://www.silentcoder.co.za _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
