Re: locale names

[Robert Brady <robert suse co uk>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Laszlo Kovacs wrote:

> I was trying to localize an application for Gnome. It is Scrollkeeper,
> some of you may know it. It has a documentation database about installed
> docs for separate for every locale. These databases are stored in
> separate files and I use the locale id to locate them. I used symbolic
> links from the full locales to the partial locales, like pt_PT links to
> pt. 

Eek.  That's not they way you should be doing it. Instead, generally
fallback from aa_BB to aa if you can't find aa_BB.  That's the way
gettext() works.

-- 
Robert Brady
robert@suse.co.uk