Re: Classic German orthography

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:31:15PM +0100, Benjamin Greiner wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
> in 1998 a "reformed" orthography was introduced in German-speaking
> countries. These new rules are unloved by many.
> 
> Starting with pan, hopefully finding time to process all of GNOME 2
> until the 2.4 release, I want to provide files in the classic
> spelling. As the changes are comparably small, a simple patch would
> in my eyes be the sane solution, for everybody interested to manually
> apply before compiling. It would be a smallish file inside po/ called
> de-classic.patch. A complete language "fork" would be nonsense, as there
> is no such thing as a "classic German locale".

The "modifier" portion of the locale designation is pretty free-form and
non-standardised. So it's not completely insane to make a de_DE@classic
or de_DE@alt-und-unveraenderlich or whatever.

Just a thought.
Malcolm

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