Re: [backintime] sr_Latn: can't guess langu age

[email protected] Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:52:30 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.internationalization.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Holger,
thank you for the quick reply.

Am 01.03.2025 10:28 schrieb Holger Wansing:
> Looking at [1] sr@latin seems to be common for such language,
> and since [2] does not show such error that you see for backintime,
> I think this would be the solution.
> 
> [1] <https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/>
> [2] <https://i18n.debian.org/l10n-pkg-status/a/avahi.html>

I am not convinced. Do we have an ISO or another standard for this we 
can refer, too.
Another project (e.g. avahi) is not a good reference. I can show you 
some other projects using "sr_Latn", too. Also Weblate does ofer this 
code.

So I am confused.

I would like to follow an official standard.
It could also be the case that gettext is wrong in this case.

I also don't understand why Debian does this language check. Why does 
Debian need to determin the language?
For example python-babel is able to determine the correct language name 
from the code "sr_Latn".

Regards,
Christian