Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>
>> ... oh, I see there's a table in initdb.c
>>
>
>
>> Are we supposed to add entries to it, one for each country? I'm
>> wondering if we should try to match the part before the _ using just the
>> language, if the complete match fails. (i.e. match "es_CL" using just
>> "es", "fr_CA" using just "fr", etc).
>>
>
> Actually, looking at the examples so far, I'm thinking we should just
> consider the string up to the first _, period.
>
> An alternative is to try to match the full locale (es_ES) and then try
> the language (es) if that wasn't found. That would leave room to put
> country-by-country exceptions in, but for the moment we'd not have any.
>
>
>
Can anyone point to a real world example where country by country would
make sense? If we need to distinguish flavors of some languages, I would
not be at all surprised if this was not by country anyway.
cheers
andrew