Locale difficulties [was Re: de_CH translation]

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen subsurface at henrik.synth.no
Tue Oct 16 04:36:01 PDT 2012


Den 16.10.12 13:27, skrev Dirk Hohndel:
> Apple seems just confused...
>
> I checked again on my Mac and while I claimed earlier that I had no
> Norwegian at all I must clearly not have been tired enough... now I can
> see that I have
>
> nb
> no
> no_NO
> no_NO.UTF-8
>
> which makes me think that it's the 'nb' setting when starting from the
> desktop that is broken.

no_NO is deprecated, I think the Desktop (almost) does what it should.

> Ok, are you able to create a patch that implements what you need? 

Probably. I'll just need to allocate some time :)

>> But we could rename no_NO to nb_NO regardless, since it's the Right
>> Thing™ to do. And sort out the other problems while packaging.
> That would certainly help me on Windows as it would now create a working
> installer for Norwegians (I think).

Just go ahead.

> Do you happen to have a Norwegian copy of Windows somewhere with which
> you could verify that theory (after I push out the name change and
> recreate the installer)?

I have an English version of XP in Virtualbox, with Norwegian regional 
settings. Maybe that works?

H


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