Adding or editing a locale

[Loren M. Lang]

Hmm, I seem to have sent this from the wrong identity, take two:


On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 11:05 +0200, Konrad Jankowski wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Aragon Gouveia <aragon at phat.za.net>
wrote:
> > Ok, I just jumped into LC_TIME and timelocal.* - it was a lot easier
than I
> > thought it'd be.  Cool!
> >
> > I'm from South Africa.  I'd like to submit an en_ZA and a fix to the
> > existing af_ZA (which has errors).  Can I just submit a diff via the
PR
> > system?

Hmm, I'm curious what happens when a less common locale such as en_ZA is
used and a certain application does not, for example, it has no
translations for en_ZA.  As I understand it, it will default to trying
simply en as a locale, but is en equivalent to en_US or en_GB which are
two locales applications are more likely to implement.  Since a
considerable amount of the software is written in the US, I'd expect
that for some applications en would translate to en_US even though en_GB
is a more appropriate substitute for en_ZA.  (Unless I'm mistaken, I
have only been to South Africa once.)  How exactly do fallbacks work?

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