should we allow pt_pt in weblate? was Re: [Fedocal] Reminder meeting : L10N

Jean-Baptiste <[email protected]>
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Le 04/11/2019 à 15:44, Mike FABIAN a écrit :
> But on Fedora (and probably most other Linux systems), it seems like pt
> is used for Portuguese Portuguese.
>
> Is there an “offical” policy?
>
> What shall we do?

Hello mike,

For now, there is no issue in Weblate. The translator explicitly 
selected pt_pt instead of pt. I can rename the language code for your 
project if you wish.

For the rest of the Linux ecosystem, I have no idea, but I feel like the 
Linux ecosystem handles locales in a very basic way. In the web 
ecosystem, there is a list of priority, but I'm unsure this really 
exists in Linux.

A Brazilian Portuguese user should have in his list of priority, 
something like: pt_br before pt before pt_pt


This really is the same issue as the zh-tw, zh-cn change to zh-hant, 
zh-hans. Here is another side effect: 
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server/issues/5829

The source of this Mozilla issue is 
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18419 which was a change closed in 
May 2013!

I'm unsure we should force Weblate to have a specific behavior, but 
rather let upstream projects to decide what language codes they wish to 
use, depending on their own deployment constraints.


Jean-Baptiste
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