From fa7841d0e75180973f3f51747c79bcd341e8876b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dgp Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:06:43 +0000 Subject: * Corrected en_UK references to en_GB. UK is not a country designation recognized in ISO 3166. --- ChangeLog | 3 +++ doc/msgcat.n | 13 +++++++------ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 2d7ac54..fd86527 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ 2002-06-17 Don Porter + * 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 -- cgit v0.12