Gang, For those Indic languages that have 639-1 codes, I used them. Otherwise, I used the 639-2 codes. This seemed to be the convention that I saw in the po subdirectory.
Most Indic languages have two-letter codes. Jeff Earickson On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:32 PM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The problem is that ISO has multiple code versions, and Jeff wants to know > which version GnuCash will use. According to ISO: > > ISO 639 is composed of six different parts > > - Part 1 (ISO 639-1:2002) provides a 2 letter code that has been > designed to represent most of the major languages of the world. > - Part 2 (ISO 639-2:1998) provides a 3 letter code, which gives more > possible combinations, so ISO 639-2:1998 can cover more languages. > - Part 3 (ISO 639-3:2007) provides a 3 letter code and aims to give as > complete a listing of languages as possible, including living, extinct and > ancient languages. > - Part 4 (ISO 639-4:2010) gives the general principles of language > coding and lays down guidelines for the use of ISO 639. > - Part 5 (ISO 639-5:2008) provides a 3 letter code for language > families and groups (living and extinct). > - Part 6 (ISO 639-6:2009) provides a 4 letter code, useful when there > is a potential need to cover the entire range of languages, language > families and groups and language variants in a system. > > All 5 languages listed originally have both two and three letter codes. > > > David > > On Sep 25, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > > Probably the former, 2-letter codes... > Whatever the official locale codes are. > > -derek > > Sent on my mobile. Please forgive any typos. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Jeff Earickson" <jaear...@colby.edu> > To: <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > Subject: Translation files, ISO 639-1 or 639-2 prefered? > Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2014 7:34 PM > > All, > > > What is the preferred language code for the po directory, 639-1 (two > letter) or 639-02 (three letter)? Should something like Hindi be "hi.po" > or "hin.po"? > > I am looking at the pile of Indian translations sent in tonight. The po > files are nice and clean, some of the new ones will replace earlier > releases. > > Jeff Earickson > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
