Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Fabio Fantoni <fantonifa...@tiscali.it> writes:
>> Hi, on a lintian output I saw: >> W: xapps-common: unknown-locale-code ber [usr/share/locale/ber/] >> but ber locale exists: >> https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/langcodes_name.php?code_ID=54 > Thanks for the report! Lintian gets the canonical list of locales from > the iso-codes package, and if I'm reading the last modification times from > its Salsa repository correctly, it may have been a bit since it was > updated. > I'm reassigning this bug to iso-codes for further investigation and cc'ing > the maintainer. Hm, sorry about the self-follow-up. I looked at this a bit further, and now I think this may be intentional. I believe ber refers to a language *group* rather than a single language, and thus is an ISO 639-5 code but not an ISO 639-3 code. Lintian specifically uses ISO 639-3 to get a list of known locale identifiers. Do you know if an ISO 639-5 locale works properly on a Debian system, in the sense that it can be used for translations and the other normal locale things? ber seems to be the code for the Berber *family* of languages, which has multiple members that have their own ISO 639-3 codes. I'm not sure that locale information for the entire family, as opposed to individual members of that family, makes sense. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
