Where to use country codes

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi Valdis,

Am Montag, 7. Juni 2010 um 10:54:12 schrieb Valdis Vītoliņš:
:
> Then formally language code should be only lv.

Yes.

> The practical reason I decided to use lv_LV, was that I had to pass
> locale name "lv" explicitly
> because Linux locale is lv_LV and gnucash did fallback to en_US (C).
> This language_country is used not only for locale, but code for keyboard
> layout, java locale,
> etc.

IIRC the locale setting is formaly

<language>[_<country>[.<charset>]]

There is an automatic fallback. If your fallback returns C, this usually 
indicates a missing (more basic) language packet on your machine. you could  
check our user mail archive for this issue because details depend on your 
OS/distro.

> > > Though Latgalian language
> > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latgalian_language) is not dialect but
> > > official language now,
> > > (as it was developed _before_ Latvian and can't be its dialect)
> > > though for us "classical" lv_LV conforms to used locale name in Linux
> > > systems ;-)
> >
> > there could be ONE translation ltg
> > and TWO sets of account templates
> > ltg_LV fitting latvian and
> > ltg_RU for russian law.
>
> And because there are Latvian communities all around the world,
> it could be also for Latvian e.g. lv_LV, lv_AU, lv_GB, lv_ES, lv_RU,
> lv_US, etc.
> So, lv_LV does make sense.

Yes for the account templates.
But they do not benefit from your translation, if it is called lv_LV.po, while 
they would, if it were named lv.po.


BTW: Is there an encoding issue? I get with

> LANG=lv_LV gnucash 

�� versija ir izstr�des stadij� un t� var nedarboties.
Par defektiem vai cit�m k�ud�m zi�ot gnucash-devel at gnucash.org.
Varat ar� apskat�t un re�istr�t defektus �eit http://bugzilla.gnome.org
P�d�j� stabil� versija bija GnuCash 2.2.9
N�kam� stabil� versija b�s GnuCash 2.4

while the rest looks fine. But with
> LANG=lv_LV.utf8 gnucash

it is readable. So at least opensuse seems to prefer a "good old" ISO-encoding 
as default charset for lv_LV.

Cheers
Frank