[geeklog-devel] Fwd: locales

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Euan,

I generally agree with you but I made the experience that locales are 
different in every operating system and there is no clear standard that 
is followed.
Correct me if I am wrong there.

Oliver

Heather Engineering wrote:

> I posted this a while ago but there was no reaction.

> I wonder if anyone thinks this is a good idea? Any comments?

>

> I'm working on a site for a client that needs to set content according 

> to locale. For now, I just added the $LANG_LOCALE string to each 

> language file.

>

> Another alternative might be that the multilanguage array setting in 

> config.php could be changed to use locale, not just language, as the 

> array key:

>

> $_CONF['language_files'] = array (

>     'en' => 'english_utf-8',

>     'ja' => 'japanese_utf-8'

> );

>

> change to 

>

> $_CONF['language_files'] = array (

>     'en_GB' => 'english_utf-8',

>     'ja_JP' => 'japanese_utf-8'

> );

>

> I think that once you start working with several languages you come to 

> realise the importance of having locale settings available. I think 

> this is a necessary modification.

>

> Cheers,

>

> Euan.

>

>

>

>

> Begin forwarded message:

>

>> *From: *Heather Engineering <info at heatherengineering.com 

>> <mailto:info at heatherengineering.com>>

>> *Date: *2007年6月15日 0:10:51:JST

>> *To: *Geeklog Development <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net 

>> <mailto:geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>>

>> *Subject: **locales*

>>

>> I'd like to request that the locale is added to each language file 

>> next to the charset next time translations are updated:

>>

>> $LANG_CHARSET = 'utf-8';

>> $LANG_LOCALE  = 'en_GB';

>>

>> unless there is some other way of working out the locale that I'm 

>> missing? I know I could do it from the filename, but that seems a 

>> little long winded to me and I think that the locale should be 

>> available. The following array might also be useful if added to the 

>> language files.

>>

>> For good measure, I've added an array of countries in English in case 

>> anyone wants. This would also be useful in the language files.

>>

>> Euan.

>>

>>

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

>

>> // partial list of locales

>> $LANG_LOCALES = array (

>>     'af_ZA' => 'Afrikaans (South Africa)',

>>     'ca_ES' => 'Catalan (Spain)',

>>     'cs_CZ' => 'Czech (Czech Republic)',

>>     'da_DK' => 'Danish (Denmark)',

>>     'de_CH' => 'German (Switzerland)',

>>     'de_DE' => 'German (Germany)',

>>     'el_GR' => 'Greek (Greece)',

>>     'en_GB' => 'English (UK)',

>>     'en_US' => 'English (USA)',

>>     'es_ES' => 'Spanish (Spain)',

>>     'fi_FI' => 'Finnish (Finland)',

>>     'fr_BE' => 'French (Belgium)',

>>     'fr_CA' => 'French (Canada)',

>>     'fr_CH' => 'French (Switzerland)',

>>     'fr_FR' => 'French (France)',

>>     'he_IL' => 'Hebrew (Israel)',

>>     'hu_HU' => 'Hungarian (Hungary)',

>>     'is_IS' => 'Islandic (Iceland)',

>>     'it_IT' => 'Italian (Italy)',

>>     'ja_JP' => 'Japanese (Japan)',

>>     'ko_KR' => 'Korean (Korea)',

>>     'lt_LT' => 'Lithuanian (Lithuania)',

>>     'nl_NL' => 'Dutch (the Netherlands)',

>>     'no_NO' => 'Norwegian (Norway)',

>>     'pl_PL' => 'Polish (Poland)',

>>     'pt_PT' => 'Portuguese (Portugal)',

>>     'ru_RU' => 'Russian (Russia)',

>>     'sk_SK' => 'Slovak (Slovakia)',

>>     'sl_SI' => 'Slovenian (Slovenia)',

>>     'sv_SE' => 'Swedish (Sweden)',

>>     'th_TH' => 'Thai (Thailand)',

>>     'tr_TR' => 'Turkish (Turkey)',

>>     'zh_CN' => 'Chinese (Simplified)',

>>     'zh_HK' => 'Chinese (Hong Kong)',

>>     'zh_TW' => 'Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)'

>> );

>> // complete list of countries

>> $LANG_COUNTRIES = array (

>>     'af' => 'Afghanistan',

>>     'al' => 'Albania',

>>     'dz' => 'Algeria',

>>     'as' => 'American Samoa',

>>     'ad' => 'Andorra',

>>     'ao' => 'Angola',

>>     'ai' => 'Anguilla',

>>     'aq' => 'Antarctica',

>>     'ag' => 'Antigua and Barbuda',

>>     'ar' => 'Argentina',

>>     'am' => 'Armenia',

>>     'aw' => 'Aruba',

>>     'au' => 'Australia',

>>     'at' => 'Austria',

>>     'az' => 'Azerbaidjan',

>>     'bs' => 'Bahamas',

>>     'bh' => 'Bahrain',

>>     'bd' => 'Bangladesh',

>>     'bb' => 'Barbados',

>>     'by' => 'Belarus',

>>     'be' => 'Belgium',

>>     'bz' => 'Belize',

>>     'bj' => 'Benin',

>>     'bm' => 'Bermuda',

>>     'bt' => 'Bhutan',

>>     'bo' => 'Bolivia',

>>     'ba' => 'Bosnia-Herzegovina',

>>     'bw' => 'Botswana',

>>     'bv' => 'Bouvet Island',

>>     'br' => 'Brazil',

>>     'io' => 'British Indian Ocean Territory',

>>     'bn' => 'Brunei Darussalam',

>>     'bg' => 'Bulgaria',

>>     'bf' => 'Burkina Faso',

>>     'bi' => 'Burundi',

>>     'kh' => 'Cambodia',

>>     'cm' => 'Cameroon',

>>     'ca' => 'Canada',

>>     'cv' => 'Cape Verde',

>>     'ky' => 'Cayman Islands',

>>     'cf' => 'Central African Republic',

>>     'td' => 'Chad',

>>     'cl' => 'Chile',

>>     'cn' => 'China',

>>     'cx' => 'Christmas Island',

>>     'cc' => 'Cocos (Keeling) Islands',

>>     'co' => 'Colombia',

>>     'km' => 'Comoros',

>>     'cg' => 'Congo',

>>     'ck' => 'Cook Islands',

>>     'cr' => 'Costa Rica',

>>     'hr' => 'Croatia',

>>     'cu' => 'Cuba',

>>     'cy' => 'Cyprus',

>>     'cz' => 'Czech Republic',

>>     'dk' => 'Denmark',

>>     'dj' => 'Djibouti',

>>     'dm' => 'Dominica',

>>     'do' => 'Dominican Republic',

>>     'tp' => 'East Timor',

>>     'ec' => 'Ecuador',

>>     'eg' => 'Egypt',

>>     'sv' => 'El Salvador',

>>     'gq' => 'Equatorial Guinea',

>>     'er' => 'Eritrea',

>>     'ee' => 'Estonia',

>>     'et' => 'Ethiopia',

>>     'fk' => 'Falkland Islands',

>>     'fo' => 'Faroe Islands',

>>     'fj' => 'Fiji',

>>     'fi' => 'Finland',

>>     'cs' => 'Former Czechoslovakia',

>>     'su' => 'Former USSR',

>>     'fr' => 'France',

>>     'fx' => 'France (European Territory)',

>>     'gf' => 'French Guyana',

>>     'tf' => 'French Southern Territories',

>>     'ga' => 'Gabon',

>>     'gm' => 'Gambia',

>>     'ge' => 'Georgia',

>>     'de' => 'Germany',

>>     'gh' => 'Ghana',

>>     'gi' => 'Gibraltar',

>>     'gb' => 'Great Britain',

>>     'gr' => 'Greece',

>>     'gl' => 'Greenland',

>>     'gd' => 'Grenada',

>>     'gp' => 'Guadeloupe (French)',

>>     'gu' => 'Guam (USA)',

>>     'gt' => 'Guatemala',

>>     'gn' => 'Guinea',

>>     'gw' => 'Guinea Bissau',

>>     'gy' => 'Guyana',

>>     'ht' => 'Haiti',

>>     'hm' => 'Heard and McDonald Islands',

>>     'hn' => 'Honduras',

>>     'hk' => 'Hong Kong',

>>     'hu' => 'Hungary',

>>     'is' => 'Iceland',

>>     'in' => 'India',

>>     'id' => 'Indonesia',

>>     'ir' => 'Iran',

>>     'iq' => 'Iraq',

>>     'ie' => 'Ireland',

>>     'il' => 'Israel',

>>     'it' => 'Italy',

>>     'ci' => 'Ivory Coast (Cote D\'Ivoire)',

>>     'jm' => 'Jamaica',

>>     'jp' => 'Japan',

>>     'jo' => 'Jordan',

>>     'kz' => 'Kazakhstan',

>>     'ke' => 'Kenya',

>>     'ki' => 'Kiribati',

>>     'kw' => 'Kuwait',

>>     'kg' => 'Kyrgyzstan',

>>     'la' => 'Laos',

>>     'lv' => 'Latvia',

>>     'lb' => 'Lebanon',

>>     'ls' => 'Lesotho',

>>     'lr' => 'Liberia',

>>     'ly' => 'Libya',

>>     'li' => 'Liechtenstein',

>>     'lt' => 'Lithuania',

>>     'lu' => 'Luxembourg',

>>     'mo' => 'Macau',

>>     'mk' => 'Macedonia',

>>     'mg' => 'Madagascar',

>>     'mw' => 'Malawi',

>>     'my' => 'Malaysia',

>>     'mv' => 'Maldives',

>>     'ml' => 'Mali',

>>     'mt' => 'Malta',

>>     'mh' => 'Marshall Islands',

>>     'mq' => 'Martinique (French)',

>>     'mr' => 'Mauritania',

>>     'mu' => 'Mauritius',

>>     'yt' => 'Mayotte',

>>     'mx' => 'Mexico',

>>     'fm' => 'Micronesia',

>>     'md' => 'Moldavia',

>>     'mc' => 'Monaco',

>>     'mn' => 'Mongolia',

>>     'ms' => 'Montserrat',

>>     'ma' => 'Morocco',

>>     'mz' => 'Mozambique',

>>     'mm' => 'Myanmar',

>>     'na' => 'Namibia',

>>     'nr' => 'Nauru',

>>     'np' => 'Nepal',

>>     'nl' => 'Netherlands',

>>     'an' => 'Netherlands Antilles',

>>     'nt' => 'Neutral Zone',

>>     'nc' => 'New Caledonia (French)',

>>     'nz' => 'New Zealand',

>>     'ni' => 'Nicaragua',

>>     'ne' => 'Niger',

>>     'ng' => 'Nigeria',

>>     'nu' => 'Niue',

>>     'nf' => 'Norfolk Island',

>>     'kp' => 'North Korea',

>>     'mp' => 'Northern Mariana Islands',

>>     'no' => 'Norway',

>>     'om' => 'Oman',

>>     'pk' => 'Pakistan',

>>     'pw' => 'Palau',

>>     'pa' => 'Panama',

>>     'pg' => 'Papua New Guinea',

>>     'py' => 'Paraguay',

>>     'pe' => 'Peru',

>>     'ph' => 'Philippines',

>>     'pn' => 'Pitcairn Island',

>>     'pl' => 'Poland',

>>     'pf' => 'Polynesia (French)',

>>     'pt' => 'Portugal',

>>     'pr' => 'Puerto Rico',

>>     'qa' => 'Qatar',

>>     're' => 'Reunion (French)',

>>     'ro' => 'Romania',

>>     'ru' => 'Russian Federation',

>>     'rw' => 'Rwanda',

>>     'gs' => 'S. Georgia & S. Sandwich Isls.',

>>     'sh' => 'Saint Helena',

>>     'kn' => 'Saint Kitts & Nevis Anguilla',

>>     'lc' => 'Saint Lucia',

>>     'pm' => 'Saint Pierre and Miquelon',

>>     'st' => 'Saint Tome (Sao Tome) and Principe',

>>     'vc' => 'Saint Vincent & Grenadines',

>>     'ws' => 'Samoa',

>>     'sm' => 'San Marino',

>>     'sa' => 'Saudi Arabia',

>>     'sn' => 'Senegal',

>>     'sc' => 'Seychelles',

>>     'sl' => 'Sierra Leone',

>>     'sg' => 'Singapore',

>>     'sk' => 'Slovak Republic',

>>     'si' => 'Slovenia',

>>     'sb' => 'Solomon Islands',

>>     'so' => 'Somalia',

>>     'za' => 'South Africa',

>>     'kr' => 'South Korea',

>>     'es' => 'Spain',

>>     'lk' => 'Sri Lanka',

>>     'sd' => 'Sudan',

>>     'sr' => 'Suriname',

>>     'sj' => 'Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands',

>>     'sz' => 'Swaziland',

>>     'se' => 'Sweden',

>>     'ch' => 'Switzerland',

>>     'sy' => 'Syria',

>>     'tj' => 'Tadjikistan',

>>     'tw' => 'Taiwan',

>>     'tz' => 'Tanzania',

>>     'th' => 'Thailand',

>>     'tg' => 'Togo',

>>     'tk' => 'Tokelau',

>>     'to' => 'Tonga',

>>     'tt' => 'Trinidad and Tobago',

>>     'tn' => 'Tunisia',

>>     'tr' => 'Turkey',

>>     'tm' => 'Turkmenistan',

>>     'tc' => 'Turks and Caicos Islands',

>>     'tv' => 'Tuvalu',

>>     'ug' => 'Uganda',

>>     'ua' => 'Ukraine',

>>     'ae' => 'United Arab Emirates',

>>     'uk' => 'United Kingdom',

>>     'us' => 'United States',

>>     'uy' => 'Uruguay',

>>     'um' => 'USA Minor Outlying Islands',

>>     'uz' => 'Uzbekistan',

>>     'vu' => 'Vanuatu',

>>     'va' => 'Vatican City State',

>>     've' => 'Venezuela',

>>     'vn' => 'Vietnam',

>>     'vg' => 'Virgin Islands (British)',

>>     'vi' => 'Virgin Islands (USA)',

>>     'wf' => 'Wallis and Futuna Islands',

>>     'eh' => 'Western Sahara',

>>     'ye' => 'Yemen',

>>     'yu' => 'Yugoslavia',

>>     'zr' => 'Zaire',

>>     'zm' => 'Zambia',

>>     'zw' => 'Zimbabwe'

>> );

>> /**

>>  * returns a string of option values for an HTML form

>>  */

>> function COM_country_select_list ($selected)

>> {

>>     global $LANG_COUNTRIES;

>>     $retval = '';

>>     foreach ($LANG_COUNTRIES AS $key => $value) {

>>         $retval .= '<option value="' . $key . '"';

>>         if ($selected==$key) {

>>             $retval .= ' SELECTED="SELECTED"';

>>         }

>>         $retval .= '>' . $value . '</option>';

>>     }

>>     return $retval;

>> }

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