Re: How to make locale settings more robust

[Anadon]

They're machine generated and I'm working towards having them
automatically updated, maintained, and tested.  If there's a locale on
earth, I have a file for it.  So for now, I need to find out why `uk`
and `uk_UA` are not working but `uk_UA.utf8`.

On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 1:17 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
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> Anadon wrote:
> > So there isn't a default fallback mechanism for variants of a
> > language by design.
>
> There is a fallback mechanism by default. It is described in the documentation
> we already pointed you to:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/The-LANGUAGE-variable.html
>
> > Then how do I get these other variants to work at
> > all?  I have 529 translation files I need to check.
>
> What are you attempting to do?
>
> Do you have a program with 23 or 529 modules? If so, why not use a single
> POT file for all together?
>
> Do you attempt to produce translations for 529 locales? That seems
> excessive. All packages I know of have translations for fewer than 50 locales.
>
> Bruno
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