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Dear all, |
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OpenOffice recently introduced language support for Valencian RACV |
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grammar, using the nonstandard ca_XR language tag. This is presumably |
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different from the AVL grammar (OpenOffice uses ca_XV) which also exists |
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and already has two global LINGUAS: "ca_XV" that was at some point used |
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by LibreOffice, but is now unused and replaced by the local flag |
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"ca_valencia", and "ca@valencia" used by Calligra and others. |
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If I understand correctly, POSIX locales use |
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language[_territory][@modifier] format, and the X in the "territory" is |
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used to denote a non-standard extension. I am however unsure whether |
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ca_XR is a correct use of "territory". |
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Debian for example uses ca-ES@valencia for Valencian AVL, which appears |
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to be based on the IETF BCP-47 (basically language[-region][-variant]) |
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language tag ca-ES-valencia. |
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Is it ok to add a ca_XR or ca@valencia-racv USE_EXPAND to LINGUAS or is |
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there a better solution? Should LINGUAS try to imitate POSIX or BCP-47? |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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