Re: [bug-gettext] country code list in gettext stale

2014-02-10 Thread John Cowan
re at all). Another well-maintained source for both country and language codes, freely available, is <http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry>. -- An observable characteristic is not necessarily John Cowan a functional requirement. --Joh

Re: [bug-gettext] [PATCH] OS/2 patches

2015-11-17 Thread John Cowan
Daiki Ueno scripsit: > I'm not sure who adds CR here. Can't we assume that all source files > use NL line termination? Or some other tools add CR on OS/2? Also, I > worry about the portability of '\r' as an argument of tr. Yes, it's definitely better to use

[bug-gettext] [bug #47838] Confusing "main dialect" statement for $LANGUAGE

2016-05-03 Thread John Cowan
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #47838 (project gettext): In addition, the notion of a "main dialect" is an invitation to politically motivated disputes. Which is the "main dialect" of English, en_GB (by history) or en_US (by population)? Does it matter that most of the rest of the anglophone world al