Re: Which languages are not used as systems default even by their native speakers?

Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:06:52 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general
Message-ID	<ZRGwHE/qxQi/[email protected]>

Hello c[1],
Am Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:51:49AM +0000 schrieb [email protected]:
> To implement something like this I need such a list of languages:
>    Danish -> Faroese
>    Simpl. Chinese -> Trad. Chinese
>    Norwegian Bokmål -> Norwegian Nynorsk
>    Norwegian Nynorsk -> Norwegian Bokmål
>    etc

From the top of my head:

    German → Sorbian
    German → Friesian
    Netherlands → Friesian
    (Swiss) German → Romansh
    (Swiss) French → Romansh

And of course language variants, e.g. most German speaking users will
use "DE", but if "DE_AT" (and all the others) are available, these
would apply. And similarly of course for English, which has quite a
few variants.

Probably collecting all of these and finding a good decision tree is
quite a bit of a task and probably should be collected in a common
„library“ so other programmes might reuse this.

Greetings

        Helge

[1] I was reluctant to anwer because questions without names are
    usually routed to /dev/null, so you might consider giving userself
    some name handle, possibly completely made up (beyond "c").

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