[sword-devel] locale handling

[Chris Little]

Hugo,

The short answer is that the "various gnome applications" are doing 
things incorrectly and violating standards if they think "nl_NL.UTF-8" 
is a correct language code.

But we should probably still handle this for valid codes like "nl-NL" 
that don't exactly match existing codes like "nl".  I don't know when it 
will be done or by whom, but I added it to the sourceforge feature 
requests list, so at least it won't be forgotten.

--Chris

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I dropped this issue on the gnomesword list but it seems to be sword 
> instead.
> 
> If I use the regular locale setting of LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 the sword module 
> does not recognize this. I have to set it to LAN=nl to make sword find the 
> proper config file.
> 
> But various gnome applications do not like the short LANG settings and 
> complain.
> 
> Can handling of the locale settings be changed to handle the common local 
> settings in stead of relying on it to match an exact string?
> 
> So en.conf would be an match for en_GB.UTF-8 unless there is a more 
> specific en_GB.conf file to override the en.conf settings.
> 
> Hugo.
>