[systemd-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] localed: add LANGUAGE= fallback when LANG= is specified

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 03:10:37PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:56:39AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek [2015-01-31 20:20 +0100]:
> > > I think the implementation is fine, since it is rather trivial, but I'm
> > > less certain about the implications of setting LANGUAGE in addtion to
> > > LANG.
> > 
> > That's totally fine -- it's precisely what $LANGUAGE is meant for. One
> > must be aware that it is a GNU extension, i. e. software like
> > thunderbird won't respect it and thus just use $LANG (in which case
> > you are no worse than now). But pretty much all "native" Linux sofware
> > does and thus will behave as intended.  We've used this schema in
> > Ubuntu since around 2005 [1].
> Thanks. Incomplete support sounds fine.
> 
> > Now, I wish such a fallback list would be in upstream glibc so that
> > OSes, systemd etc. wouldn't have to repeat and maintain it; but while
> > [1] looks quite complex, it hasn't really changed in years.
> Looking at the list, I'm wondering about using en_GB as the fallback for
> most locales. I guess that for European countries it makes some sense, but
> for Japanese, Kazakh, and many other places, I'd expect en_US to be
> better last choice. Especially that en_US translation coverage is more
> complete than en_GB.
> 
> Also, I'd expect a fallback to Russian before English for Kazakh, it's
> their second official language.
> 
> > If this patch goes in, I'm happy to augment the list according to [1]
> > and then move our language-selector to use that instead, to reduce
> > duplication.
> Great.
I pushed the patches now.

It would be great if you could add more mappings.

Zbyszek