Locales with the same language

[Shachar Shemesh]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:

>"Vincent Béron" <vberon at mecano.gme.usherb.ca> wrote:
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>>>>I have problems displaying Wine's app in my locale (fr_CA). They seem to
>>>>prefer to go to the English locale, although if launched with
>>>>LANG=fr_FR wine notepad
>>>>they will obey the French locale.
>>>>
>>>>LANG=fr wine notepad
>>>>will display a warning about the plurality of locales with "fr", but
>>>>will display the app in French nonetheless.
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>>>>
>>>LC_ALL=fr_CA wine notepad
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>>Nope, doesn't work.
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>That's because there is no resources marked as (LANG_FRENCH,SUBLANG_FRENCH_CANADIAN)
>in the Wine apps. If you fairly confident that all flavours of French (including
>Canadian) have too little differences and creating separate resources for each
>of them isn't worth the effort, then a way to go is to mark all french resources
>in Wine with (LANG_FRENCH,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL).
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No, that doesn't sound correct to me. Did you check that this is the way 
Windows does it's matching?

As far as I remember, if an exact match does not exist, we should look 
for the same language with sublang DEFAULT. IIRC, there is no situation 
where defining "SUBLANG_NEUTRAL" is the correct thing to do in resources.

                Shachar

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