Language support for 11.2.0

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Wed Feb 9 15:03:58 EST 2011


On 02/06/2011 07:51 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 6 February 2011 12:36, Daniel Drake<dsd at laptop.org>  wrote:
>> Does anyone know what the difference between "ht" and "ht_HT" is?
>> I see that SKU24 does set the system locale to ht_HT. But does that
>> mean we should include ht *and* ht_HT? Just ht_HT? Or ...?
>
> I think I figured it out: "ht" doesn't exist as a locale, but what
> "ht" means in this context is to include all avaliable locales which
> start with "ht_".

Yes that is how I understand it as well.

Having "pt,pt_BR" in the olpc-os-builder config file seem to be not 
needed then - 'pt' would be enough.

> According to "locale -a" output on 11.2.0-7, ht_HT is already
> available, and it seems to work (not many strings are available, but
> according to kreyol.com the offered translation of Write as Ekri is
> accurate). So I think we may have misdiagnosed (or mis-guessed) the
> problem in 10.1.3 with Kreyol translations in that other thread, as
> ht_HT should also be included there.

You are right on that one. ht was included in the build all the time. So 
I think just the CP command line command did choke when setting.

Regards,
    Simon




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