[pacman-dev] CVS update of pacman-lib (20 files)

[Mateusz Jedrasik]

Tuesday 08 of May 2007 10:50:56 Roman Kyrylych napisał(a):
> 2007/5/8, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>:
> >    Date: Monday, May 7, 2007 @ 23:41:31
> >  Author: dan
> >    Path: /home/cvs-pacman/pacman-lib
> >
> > Modified: lib/libalpm/po/de.po (1.19 -> 1.20)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/en_GB.po (1.5 -> 1.6)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/es.po (1.1 -> 1.2)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/fr.po (1.12 -> 1.13)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/hu.po (1.12 -> 1.13)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/it.po (1.22 -> 1.23)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/libalpm.pot (1.10 -> 1.11)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/pl_PL.po (1.1 -> 1.2)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/pt_BR.po (1.11 -> 1.12)
> >          lib/libalpm/po/ru_RU.po (1.3 -> 1.4)
> >          src/pacman/po/de.po (1.22 -> 1.23)
> >          src/pacman/po/en_GB.po (1.7 -> 1.8)
> >          src/pacman/po/es.po (1.1 -> 1.2) src/pacman/po/fr.po (1.16 ->
> > 1.17) src/pacman/po/hu.po (1.17 -> 1.18)
> >          src/pacman/po/it.po (1.23 -> 1.24)
> >          src/pacman/po/pacman.pot (1.12 -> 1.13)
> >          src/pacman/po/pl_PL.po (1.1 -> 1.2)
> >          src/pacman/po/pt_BR.po (1.15 -> 1.16)
> >          src/pacman/po/ru_RU.po (1.8 -> 1.9)
>
> [cosmetics goes here:]
> I wonder why there are pl_PL and ru_RU instead of just pl and ru.
> By contrast with en_* and pt_* AFAIK there are no other pl_* locales
> and all other ru_* are useless because not used by _any_ software.

Historical reasons for naming would be my best guess (from when locale was 
just becoming something at all usable).

I named it pl_PL mainly for consistency with other apps - look for example 
into /etc/locale.gen

Cheers,

//m.

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