[Bins] Re: [Cooker] rpmlint yells about some 2 letters locales only

[Guillaume Rousse]

Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> Guillaume Rousse <rousse at ccr.jussieu.fr> writes:
> 
> 
>>>>[guillomovitch at klama guillomovitch]$ rpmlint -i
>>>>rpm/RPMS/noarch/bins-1.1.25-1mdk.noarch.rpm
>>>>E: bins invalid-lc-messages-dir /usr/share/locale/zh/LC_MESSAGES/bins.mo
>>>>Why does rpmlint only yells about zh ?
>>>
>>>Because zh isn't enough: zh_CN is for China, zh_HK for Hong Kong
>>>and zh_TW for Taiwan.
>>
>>And why should fr alone be enough then? locales are usually fr_FR,
>>fr_CA, fr_BE, etc...
> 
> 
> fr_CA and fr_BE are nearly the same language[0] whereas zh_CN and
> zh_TW uses different fonts, encoding (some words even begin to be
> different[1])
> 
> it's somewhat similar to the few east european languages that one can
> write in cyrillic alphabet or in latin alphabet. one usually learn one
> but not both.
> 
> there's no zh locale whereas nearly all fr_XX locales share the same
> locales definition.
> 
> 
> 
> [0] of course they've some local changes but they're quite the same
>     language
> 
> 
> [1] it's the same for korean: nord-korean people have a vocabulary
>     that sounds "strange" now for south korean people.
> 
>     and we don't even speak about pure korean alphabet (which is not a
>     "linear" alphabet but arrange glyphs in "hidden" squares) vs mix
>     of korean alphabet + historical chinse signs...
Seems to be an upsteam bug then. Jérôme ?


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