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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2007-06-18 01:50:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2009-06-23 12:14:57 +0200 |
| commit | e7b012bc05853c22f041da2fef12372aa0e936be (patch) | |
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Add a paragraph about locale names.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi | 11 |
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diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog b/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog index 26f2c2f..c48f5bd 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-06-17 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * gettext.texi (Locale Names): Explain the variant syntax. + Reported by Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>. + 2007-06-07 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> * gettext.texi (aclocal): Mention also intlmacosx.m4. @@ -5,7 +10,7 @@ 2007-06-07 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> * xgettext.texi: Mention some caveats. - Reported by Ariel <asgettext@dsgml.com>. + Reported by Ariel Shkedi <asgettext@dsgml.com>. 2007-06-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi index afe9fb9..adaaf58 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi +++ b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi @@ -1214,6 +1214,17 @@ still refers to the German locale as of 2000 that stores characters in ISO-8859-1 encoding -- a text encoding that cannot even accomodate the Euro currency sign. +Some locale names use @samp{@var{ll}_@var{CC}.@@@var{variant}} instead of +@samp{@var{ll}_@var{CC}}. The @samp{@@@var{variant}} can denote any kind of +characteristics that is not already implied by the language @var{ll} and +the country @var{CC}. It can denote a particular monetary unit. For example, +on glibc systems, @samp{de_DE@@euro} denotes the locale that uses the Euro +currency, in contrast to the older locale @samp{de_DE} which implies the use +of the currency before 2002. It can also denote a dialect of the language, +or the script used to write text (for example, @samp{sr_RS@@latin} uses the +Latin script, whereas @samp{sr_RS} uses the Cyrillic script to write Serbian), +or the orthography rules, or similar. + On other systems, some variations of this scheme are used, such as @samp{@var{ll}}. You can get the list of locales supported by your system for your language by running the command @samp{locale -a | grep '^@var{ll}'}. |