Re: Stringset fallbacks

Subject: Re: Stringset fallbacks
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 21:25:53 CDT

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Andrew Dunbar wrote:

> I seem to remember either some discussion or a bug report about
> falling back to second-best stringsets when there is no exact match
> for the current locale. For instance Australian English is almost
> identical to British English (I think most English-speaking countries
> are) so we would prefer that over American English which is the
> standard fallback. A broader case is falling back to any stringset
> which matches just your language if there is none for your language
> and territory.
>
> If there was such a discussion, what was decided? If not, I'd
> like to have a go at implementing it.
>

This is a good idea. Go for it.

Cheers

Martin

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