Locales with the same language

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> wrote:

> >2003-01-05
> >    Shachar Shemesh <winecode at sun.consumer.org.il>
> >    Change the SUBLANG_NEUTRAL clause in all winelib applications to
> >    SUBLANG_DEFAULT, as they should be.
> >
> >I vote to revert that patch.
> >  
> >
> Then perhaps I should explain why I submitted this patch.
> 
> The problem was with notepad. If my locale said "he_IL", it would 
> display the menues in Danish. The reason was that, failing to find 
> Hebrew locales, and failing to find LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT 
> locales, it loaded the first one available.

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.

> 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.

If VS wouldn't allow you to add Hebrew resources you would decide that
Hebrew language is forbidden in resources?

> Now, looking at the code searching path I see:
>     /* 2. specified language with neutral sublanguage */
>     pos = push_language( list, pos, MAKELANGID( 
> PRIMARYLANGID(info->Language), SUBLANG_NEUTRAL ) );
> 
> As far as my understanding goes, this should match the LANG_FRENCH with 
> ANY sublang.

No, it adds match for LANG_FRENCH,SUBLANG_NEUTRAL *only*.

> Why doesn't this rule correctly find LANG_FRENCH,
> SUBLANG_FRENCH_CANADIAN?

Because there is no resources marked for that language dialect.

> 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?

The best way is to write a test program. I did it. Did you?

-- 
Dmitry.