Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi developers,

It has done.  From now on, "fr", "en-US" etc. may be used to
specify language contexts on Sympa anywhere.  For details see
Language.pm.
Migration is transparent: No need to modify old configs, session
caches etc.


A few notes:

o Language tag "en" was given special meaning: it specifies default
  locale ("C" locale) and skips gettext translation.  It is last resort.
  In general, "en-US" should be used (exception is such as content of
  "Date:" header field).

o Pootle issues:

  - Catalog of "English" (en) and "English (United States)" (en_US)
    have the same content now.  It should be unified to en_US.

  - Catalog name of Bokmål is "nb_NO".  It should be better to be
    "nb".

Regards,

-- Soji

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:06:29 +0900
IKEDA Soji <address@concealed> wrote:

> Hi developers,
> 
> If beta release of Sympa-6.2 will be postponed, in this week I want
> to work on following issue: convention of language/locales ---
> 
>   * Complicated use of "lang" and "locale": Sympa takes former as
>     just a canonicalized form of latter.
>     As a result, there are difficulty to convert them between
>     appropriate language codes.
> 
>   * Current convention of locale, "ll_RR" form, is not flexible
>     enough:
> 
>     - Currently Arabic locale is "ar_SY" which may specify the
>       Arabic language spoken around Damascus and so on.  "ar" would
>       be better to specify Standard Arabic (al-Fushā).
> 
>     - It is impossible to specify variants in script, region etc.
>       For example: Serbian language written by Latin script instead
>       of Cyrillic ("sr@latin"); Valencian variant of Catalan
>       language ("ca_ES@valencian").
> 
> My plans are:
> 
>   (a) Use IETF language tags (RFC 5646) anywhere except (b) and (c):
>         fr, zh-CN, ar, sr-Latn, ca-ES-valencian, ...
> 
>       Configuration parameters related to language settings also
>       would be changed.  Compatibility with old format should be
>       kept for the time being.
> 
>   (b) Use gettext-style locale names only for names of po files (and
>       "Language:" field of their headers):
>         fr, zh_CN, ar, sr@latin, ca_ES@valencian, ...
> 
>   (c) Use "ll_RR" style names only for language subdirectories
>       of template paths:
>         fr_FR, zh_CN, ar_SY, (others are not supported).
> 
>       Then in nearly later release, rename these directories using
>       IETF language tags.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --- Soji
> 
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〒231-0004　神奈川県横浜市中区元浜町3-21-2 ヘリオス関内ビル7F
e-mail address@concealed  TEL 045-640-3550
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