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[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)


------- Additional Comments From egmont at uhulinux dot hu  2007-03-13 14:20 -------
It seems to me that while LANG and LC_* may only contain valid locale names 
(since these variables are involved in the setlocale() call that handles 
structures representing existing locales), the variable LANGUAGE which I guess 
is only involved in gettext may take arbitrary value. So for example even if 
there's no esperanto locale on your system, this setup seems to be perfectly 
valid and working for me:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=eo
and then translations are primary taken from the "<localedir>/eo" directory. 
LANGUAGE can even take more language codes separated by ':', e.g. 
LANGUAGE=eo:de to fall back to German for each string where esperanto 
translation is not available.

This means that you can translate your application to Esperanto even if there's 
no such locale. What is still missing is the stuff coming from the locale 
database: month and weekday names, first day of week in calendar, localized 
date format, decimal separator and grouping character, yes/no regexp, collation 
etc...


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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2135

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