GNU gettext - Bugs: bug #47838, Confusing "main dialect"...
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bug #47838: Confusing "main dialect" statement for $LANGUAGE
Submitter: | None | ||
Submitted: | Tue 03 May 2016 04:07:20 PM UTC | ||
Category: | Doc | Severity: | 3 - Normal |
Item Group: | None | Status: | None |
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Open/Closed: | Open |
Tue 03 May 2016 04:43:29 PM UTC, comment #1: |
John Cowan <johnwcowan> |
Tue 03 May 2016 04:07:20 PM UTC, original submission:
In the gettext documentation, section 2.3.3, the document says:
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In addition, the notion of a "main dialect" is an invitation to politically motivated disputes. Which is the "main dialect" of English, en_GB (by history) or en_US (by population)? Does it matter that most of the rest of the anglophone world aligns in most respects with en_GB?
In BCP 47 the meaning of a primary language subtag unqualified by a region subtag is simply "the specified language, regional variant not given". For some languages including English and Portuguese, there are no neutral variants and implementers must choose, but specifying "en" signals a willingness to accept any variety of English.
Suggested text:
In the LANGUAGE environment variable, but not in the other environment variables, ‘ll_CC’ combinations can be abbreviated as ‘ll’ to denote an unspecified regional variety of the language, or (in some cases) a variety of the language which is not regionally identifiable. This is dependent on the presence of MO files for the specified domain.