On Mittwoch, 15. August 2007, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > > General question: Why is the locale dir called de_DE and not just de - as > > that seems what most other programs on my system do? > > because German is spoken in more then one country: de_DE, de_AT and I > think de_CH and more. I havn't not list with all locales here now. > Yeah, german is spoken in other countries. Is there then a reason to restrict the translation to germany? some example: wget installs the file /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wget.mo this is to provide translations for "all" de* locales. Not just the german one, but also for austria and swiss. Matthias -- Matthias Schwarzott (zzam) _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr