[Tickets #8816] includes a fr_FR.po translation instead of fr.po

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8816
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  Ticket             | 8816
  Created By         | math.parent at gmail.com
  Summary            | includes a fr_FR.po translation instead of fr.po
  Queue              | Horde Base
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Unconfirmed
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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math.parent at gmail.com (2010-01-05 10:10) wrote:

Using a country part in a translation file is a discouraged practice
except in very few cases (such as pt_BR).

Using a fr_FR.po file instead of a fr.po file prevents users of fr_CA,
fr_BE, fr_LU, fr_CH and all other existing and future locales for
French to benefit from the French translation of the program.

The language does not vary among countries and, again, this is not the
general practice for programs localization.

The bug also occurs for other translations. In general PO files should
only be named after the ISO_639 code of the given language and
should not use a country part with a ISO-3166 code. The only
accepted exceptions to this are:

-pt_BR for Brazilian Portuguese and pt alone for "standard Portuguese"
-zh_CN for "Simplified Chinese" use in mailand China and Singapore
-zh_TW for "Traditional Chinese" used in Taiwan

Lat both are different ways of wrinting Chinese, not to be confused
with Mandarin/Cantonese which are different ways of *speaking*
Chinese....both being written the same way.

regards

Mathieu P

(Wordings taken from http://bugs.debian.org/336798)

References:
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336812
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336815
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336818
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336824
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336798
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336800
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336819
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336820
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336821