Related languages

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 11:15 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, I didn't understood you the first time. Yes, we have already that
feature in mind, we are still thinking about the best way to show that
in our user interface.

Cheers.

> 
> Regards,
> Ruben
> 
> 
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