Locales with the same language

[Shachar Shemesh]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:

>"Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> wrote:
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>Then probably you had to replace SUBLANG_NEUTRAL by SUBLANG_DEFAULT
>only for LANG_ENGLISH resources. Anyway the patch I just set adds
>LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL to the fallback list, since my test
>under win2k shows that.
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After some more analysis as a result of our discussion, maybe that is, 
indeed, the right thing to do.

>>I then proceeded to research what the situation on Windows was, and the 
>>categorical answer was that Visual Studio would not let you create 
>>resources with SUBLANG_NEUTRAL. SUBLANG_DEFAULT was the only option. It 
>>is for that reason that I believe that SUBLANG_NEUTRAL should only be 
>>used as a search qualifier, never as an actual resource.
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>If VS wouldn't allow you to add Hebrew resources you would decide that
>Hebrew language is forbidden in resources?
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VS DOESN'T let me add Hebrew resources, but if I then go and type in the 
language ID manually, it accepts it. On the other hand, it didn't accept 
SUBLANG_NEUTRAL as a valid option. As I said earlier in this mail, 
further research seems to suggest that I was, indeed, wrong.

>>The MSDN is a little hazy on the subject of 
>>SUBLANG_NEUTRAL. It has always been my understanding that we should be 
>>treating SUBLANG_NEUTRAL as a wildcard. Is that wrong?
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>The best way is to write a test program. I did it. Did you?
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At the time, yes. The result was that LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT was 
selected no matter what I did. When I have the time (yeah, right) I'll 
try installing a few variants of the same windows versions and do 
comparative assesment. I'm willing to mark this down as a bad case of 
memory on my part, in any case.

          Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
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