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TakahikoKawasaki / nv-i18n

Package to support internationalization, containing ISO 3166-1 country code enum, ISO 639-1 language code enum, etc.
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Non standard locales in the wild (es_LA) #3

Open smola opened 11 years ago

smola commented 11 years ago

Some developers have had the brilliant idea of using non-standard and conflicting locale codes in their apps. The problem is that, in the case of es_LA (according to ISO "Spanish for Laos", but actually used for "Spanish for Latin America").

I wouldn't file a bug here if it weren't because this is now quite spread and common practice (you'll get that from Facebook's API or in free software localization files).

On the one hand, special handling for this case could be added ("LA" is not Laos if preceded by "es"). On the other, "Latin America" is not a country, and as such it lacks 2-digit ISO code. But it does have a 3-digit UN M.49 supranational code.

I'm not sure what would be an appropiate way of handling this in nv-i18n. At the moment, I'm just getting around it by replacing "es_LA" by just "es" before feeding it to nv-18n.

WolverineNiks commented 1 year ago

Just got the issue with es_LA on meta leadgen forms. I've registred hundreds of leads from LAOS even if my client never campagined in that country...