From: "Antoine Leca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:59 PM, Philippe Verdy va escriure: > > This code is meant > > to designate the language variant as spoken in that area, but not for > > identifying a location. > > I am very sorry, but if in > LANG=fr; LC_MONETARY=es_ES > you consider that _ES above is a language variant of Spanish Castilian as > different from Hispanoamerican, you are deeply wrong.
Don't infer things I did not say. I did not mean that. My sentence is valid within the context of the [LANG=] setting, not in the context of [LC_MONETARY=]. Within [LANG=], the country/territory specification is a language variant specifier, which may or may not work well to designate other localizable elements. In fact even if you used [LANG=es_ES], this may not mean only Catillan: there are other variants of Spanish in Spain (even if you exclude regional languages like Basque, Catalan, Occitan, Galician, which have also their own variants independant of [LANG=es] Spanish). [LANG=] in your example is unambiguously specifying the French language (but no implied country/territory, and thus not Spanis) and is then used as the default for other locale settings; [LC_MONETARY=] will never have a semantic for language or language-variant selection, it is really meant to designate the currency used in Spain, and formated according to currency format in Spain (the [es] prefix has no real function here except that it just selects the best script to use for digits and decimal separator and grouping) for spelling currency amounts, French terms would still be used according to [LANG], in reference to the Spanish currency (now the Euro, same as in France). Should the [LC_MONETARY=] setting be left unspecified, the currency settings would inherit from the language setting in [LANG=], that does not specify the territory (so the currency will be left unspecified to some defaults, using the digits, dot and comma as used in French, most probably in France here). The POSIX settings are very language-centric with [LANG=] used as the root setting used as the default for for other specialized settings (the only exception being [TZ=] for the timezone, which can't be infered correctly and easily from a language or even a territory).
