Re: CLDR import for src/share/*def definitions

Wolfgang Zenker(e)k dio:
> Hi,
> 
> * J. Vicente Carrasco -Bixen-  <[email protected]>[090706 20:42]:
>> Wolfgang Zenker(e)k dio:
>>> * Edwin Groothuis <[email protected]> [090702 00:37]:
>>>> I have been playing with the CLDR database to see if I can get the
>>>> monetary, time, messages and numerical definitions right. The CLDR
>>>> is in UTF-8, I use iconv to translate to other charactersets.
> 
>>>> So far most of it is fine, except (subset of issues):
> 
>>>> - A couple of languages are not known (es_FR, es_IT)
> 
>>> what do you mean by "not known"? Both locales specify a spanish language
>>> locale, one for use in  France and one in Italy. There might even be no
>>> different language contructs from es_ES, just different ways to format
>>> dates ore something like that.
> 
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but as a Spanish native speaker I can't 
>> understand why we (the Spanish-speaking community) could need locales as 
>> es_FR or es_IT or even why would be necessary for the French and Italian 
>> speaking world. Is something like en_ES, no_IT or de_RU. Why the heck is 
>> that? ;-)
> 
> as I understand it, that would be locales for use by spanish speaking
> communities living in France and Italy, respectively. So someone who
> uses one of these locales gets e.g. system messages in spanish but
> dates formatted according to the customs in France or something like
> that.
> 


Spanish speaking communities living in France and Italy... and using 
FreeBSD. Suddendly my pet project of Basque localization (eu_ES and 
maybe eu_FR) sounds more and more interesting ;-)




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