[Pkg-isocodes-devel] iso-codes howto

[David Prévot]

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Le 25/04/2011 01:36, Christian PERRIER a écrit :
> Quoting David Prévot (david at tilapin.org):

>> [ Please keep me CC on reply ]

>> Do you
>> know a way (à la code2language) to associate a 639-3 iso code to a
>> language name? […] Do you have any pointer
>> to iso-codes usage documentation?
> 
> I think isoquery is what you're about. "apt-get install isoquery"

Yep, should have look closer to the suggests before asking, thanks for
your quick answer (so I guess I won't find a howto ;-), just need to
find a way to trick that inside a Perl code embedded in WML, at worst,
I'll export the needed data and build a hash from it, shouldn't be too
difficult.

>> P.-S.: it seems that language names start with an uppercase in French,
>> is it intended?
> 
> This was a request from GNOME developers (more specifically GNOME
> French l10n team), as language names are used in lists by them.
> 
> I pondered between a strict application of French typography and real
> use and finally settled for the latter.

You can soon add a real use that will strictly apply French typography.
I'd suggest real use that need an uppercase (e.g. for listing purpose)
to use an ucfirst-like function, instead of enforcing everyone else to
fix it (with an lcfirst-like function that could be error prone: not
sure that alumu-Tesu or arifama-Miniafia would be correct for example).

Would you mind a bug report about this issue (haven't find this issue
raised in the BTS archive)?

Please note that “afrikaans” is lowercase in iso_639_3/fr.po

Regards

David

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