Re: Locale proposal for German in Italy (South Tyrol)

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On 13 Mar 2016 18:59, Matthias Dieter WallnÃfer wrote:
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_IDENTIFICATION
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_CTYPE
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_COLLATE
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_TIME
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_NUMERIC
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_MONETARY
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_MESSAGES
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_PAPER
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_NAME
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_ADDRESS
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_TELEPHONE
> category  "de_IT:2000";LC_MEASUREMENT

all the "de_IT:2000" should be "i18n:2000" instead

> LC_COLLATE
> % Copy the template from ISO/IEC 14651
> copy "iso14651_t1"
> END LC_COLLATE

shouldn't this copy de_DE ?  don't you have same daicrit behavior ?

> LC_MESSAGES
> yesexpr "<U005E><U005B><U006A><U004A><U0079><U0059><U005D><U002E><U002A>"
> noexpr  "<U005E><U005B><U006E><U004E><U005D><U002E><U002A>"
> END LC_MESSAGES

why not copy de_DE ?  it's the same.

> LC_MONETARY
> int_curr_symbol           "<U0045><U0055><U0052><U0020>"
> currency_symbol           "<U20AC>"
> mon_decimal_point         "<U002C>"
> mon_thousands_sep         "<U002E>"
> mon_grouping              3;3
> positive_sign             ""
> negative_sign             "<U002D>"
> int_frac_digits           2
> frac_digits               2
> p_cs_precedes             1
> p_sep_by_space            1
> n_cs_precedes             1
> n_sep_by_space            1
> p_sign_posn               1
> n_sign_posn               1
> END LC_MONETARY

since this is largely based on the region rather than translation,
don't you want to copy it_IT here ?  those will be the same.

> LC_TIME
> ...
> END LC_TIME

these are the same as de_AT ?  you can replace these with a copy

> LC_PAPER
> height   297
> width    210
> END LC_PAPER

copy it_IT instead ?

> LC_MEASUREMENT
> % metric
> measurement 1
> END LC_MEASUREMENT

same here

> LC_NAME
> name_fmt    "<U0025><U0064><U0025><U0074><U0025><U0067><U0025><U0074>/
> <U0025><U006D><U0025><U0074><U0025><U0066>"
> END LC_NAME

copy de_DE or de_AT instead ?
-mike

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