Related languages

[Ruben Vermeersch]

On di, 2004-12-21 at 10:25 +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 19:53 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> > Apparently, rosetta does all locales (which isn't a bad thing, on the
> > contrary), but this imposes a dangerous risk of doing double work.
> > 
> > I'm from Flanders, where we speak nl_BE, off course, this is almost
> > exactly the same as nl, (same as fr_BE would be highly similar to fr,
> > en_US & en_UK etc).
> > 
> > Shouldn't there be a way to link these related languages to each other?
> > This would greatly decrease the amount of duplicate work.
> 
> We are planning to create a white list of languages specific for a
> country so only are used if we know for sure they are needed (like
> pt_BR) so the other languages like nl_BE will not be showed.
> 
> If you have a better suggestion, we are 100% open to it.
> 
> Cheers.

As far as I know, it already does that. But i'm pointing to something
else. nl_BE is just marginally different (in fact, it's 99.99% the same)
from normal nl. Shouldn't there be a way to define that nl_BE inherits
strings from nl, to avoid having to do nl_BE completely again?

Regards,
Ruben