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| author | dgp <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> | 2002-06-17 21:06:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | dgp <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> | 2002-06-17 21:06:43 (GMT) |
| commit | fa7841d0e75180973f3f51747c79bcd341e8876b (patch) | |
| tree | ed7fbdaac3c6f10987b82ce45d738522e3e0bacd | |
| parent | d791a1f9dbfd5b4dd46a45187426558573eec9ce (diff) | |
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* Corrected en_UK references to en_GB. UK is not
a country designation recognized in ISO 3166.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/msgcat.n | 13 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ 2002-06-17 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> + * doc/msgcat.n: Corrected en_UK references to en_GB. UK is not + a country designation recognized in ISO 3166. + * library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl: More Windows Registry locale codes from Bruno Haible. diff --git a/doc/msgcat.n b/doc/msgcat.n index 2fb5591..614c2b5 100644 --- a/doc/msgcat.n +++ b/doc/msgcat.n @@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ returns {en_US_funky en_US en}. .TP \fB::msgcat::mcload \fIdirname\fR Searches the specified directory for files that match -the language specifications returned by \fB::msgcat::mcpreferences\fR, -extended by the file extension ``.msg''. Each matching file is +the language specifications returned by \fB::msgcat::mcpreferences\fR +(note that these are all lowercase), extended by the file +extension ``.msg''. Each matching file is read in order, assuming a UTF-8 encoding. The file contents are then evaluated as a Tcl script. This means that non-Latin characters may be present in the message file either directly in their UTF-8 @@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ locale of ``C''. .PP When a locale is specified by the user, a ``best match'' search is performed during string translation. For example, if a user specifies -en_UK_Funky, the locales ``en_UK_Funky'', ``en_UK'', and ``en'' are +en_GB_Funky, the locales ``en_GB_Funky'', ``en_GB'', and ``en'' are searched in order until a matching translation string is found. If no translation string is available, then \fB::msgcat::unknown\fR is called. @@ -229,11 +230,11 @@ to the following conditions: .IP [1] All message files for a package are in the same directory. .IP [2] -The message file name is a locale specifier followed -by ``.msg''. For example: +The message file name is a msgcat locale specifier (all lowercase) +followed by ``.msg''. For example: .CS es.msg -- spanish -en_UK.msg -- UK English +en_gb.msg -- United Kingdom English .CE .IP [3] The file contains a series of calls to \fBmcset\fR and |