Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> writes: >> It is already a public constant. And I see no strong reason to change >> this (strong enough to justify breaking change). > > Every piece of code accessing this public constant must implement > fallback from e.g. "de-ch" (or de_CH) to "de". Or to "en" for an > unsupported language. To achieve consistent behavior it is better to > provide a helper function.
Not necessarily. I mostly thought about some unconventional code that uses the constant for some reason unexpected to us. We do not want to break that. Helper function is certainly a good idea. I did plan for it. >>> I have a hope that properties may be generated from CLDR data, LaTeX >>> babel .ini files, etc. However it should be possible to override >>> specific properties. >> >> For context, I plan to provide a global language-identifier alist that >> will link human-readable language names to abbreviations like "de", >> "de-de", etc. > > This languange-region identifiers may be written in different way > (dash/underscore, case), but they are used specify POSIX locale LANG, > LC_* and extensions like LANGUAGE, so in some cases human friendly names > may be less convenient. Sorry, but I do not follow you about the downsides of "human friendly" names. >> Though I am not sure if we can easily handle tricky >> cases like weird installation directory for TeXLive or MikTeX. > > kpsewhich babel-de.ini which may not be in the PATH. > /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/locale/de/babel-de.ini which is not true on Guix, or when installed under /opt via make install. I did not mean the conventional distros that follow conventional naming schemes, but the edge cases - I see no point adding automation just to fight various non-standard user installations later. It will not make maintenance any easier. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
