How to do the language code switch for Norwegian Bokmål: no -> nb

[Åsmund Skjæveland <aasmunds fys uio no>]

Some within the Norwegian translation teams are now arguing that it's 
time for GNOME to use 'nb' as the language code for Norwegian Bokmål 
rather than the obsolete 'no'. KDE has long since switched, and libc now 
includes 'nb' as a real locale as well as 'no'. Kjartan Maraas is AFAIK 
in charge, but he hasn't been heard from in a while.
	What is the best way to do this, technically? Some argue that the 
install scripts of the GNOME apps should be modified so that 'nb.po' is 
installed both as 'no.mo' and 'nb.mo', so that there is only one po 
file, but two working locale codes in a transition period.
	If this approach requires the cooperation of all maintainers, it's 
probably not the best way to go, but if it can be included in intltool 
and make sure all GNOME releases then depend on a recent intltool, it 
could work.
	Having two po files 'no.po' and 'nb.po' and letting the translators 
make sure they're identical is apparently not a desirable option. 
Probably the sentiment is that then the translators have to do this 
extra step for every commit, there's always a chance that someone will 
forget, while changin the build script to copy nb.po to no.po would only 
have to be done once.

Can it be done for GNOME 2.8?
How much work, roughly, would be involved to make it work?


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Å. Skjæveland