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This means that in addition to the previous style of ab-CD locale names, we also support simple language-only names, and even extended names for dialects. | This means that in addition to the previous style of ab-CD locale names, we also support simple language-only names, and even extended names for dialects. | ||
The basic for of our new locale identifiers is <language>-<region>-<dialect>, where the region dialect parts are optional. | The basic for of our new locale identifiers is <language>-<region>-<dialect>, where the region and dialect parts are optional. | ||
Actually, every language that's not different for different regions should go | Actually, every language that's not different for different regions should go | ||
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To summarize, these schemes are supported: | To summarize, these schemes are supported: | ||
* ab | * ab | ||
* ab- | * ab-XY | ||
* abc- | * abc-XY | ||
* abc- | * abc-XY-SIL | ||
* abc- | * abc-XY-dialect | ||
where | where | ||
* ab/abc - from [http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ ISO 639.1/639.2] | * ab/abc - from [http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ ISO 639.1/639.2] | ||
* | * XY - from [http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html ISO 3166] | ||
* SIL - from the [http://www.ethnologue.com/codes/ SIL list] | * SIL - from the [http://www.ethnologue.com/codes/ SIL list] | ||
* dialect - following the rules from RFC 3066 | * dialect - following the rules from RFC 3066 (3 to 8 characters) | ||
Currently, we do only support those names on releases that user the new version of the "source L10n" approach, with localized files in CVS under the l10n/ partition (main CVS directory). This means it works for Firefox and Thunderbird "trunk" (1.1), while we do not support the new naming scheme for Firefox/Thunderbird 1.0.x or Mozilla suite releases. For those, only the "ab- | Currently, we do only support those names on releases that user the new version of the "source L10n" approach, with localized files in CVS under the l10n/ partition (main CVS directory). This means it works for Firefox and Thunderbird "trunk" (1.1), while we do not support the new naming scheme for Firefox/Thunderbird 1.0.x or Mozilla suite releases. For those, only the "ab-XY" and "abc-XY" schemes are currently supported. | ||