Localizing variants of English

mmalc crawford mmalc_lists at mac.com
Sun Jan 6 11:25:14 PST 2008


On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> Yes. There are language codes also for dialects, e.g. en-gb is  
> British English.
>
Typically you should specify a locale, not a language ID. For a  
project locale, it would be en_GB.
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/LanguageDesignations.html 
 >


On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Fabian Schuiki wrote:

> Wouldn't make much sense for Swiss German since it's not a full  
> language as such, many components of a "full language" like High  
> German or English are missing (i.e. there are only 2 tenses for  
> verbs, present and present perfect). But for other languages this  
> actually would/could make sense…
>
As the above reference describes, there's more to a locale than just  
language...

mmalc



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