Re: MacOSX-dev digest, Vol 1 #2223 - 8 msgs

FROM : Clark S. Cox III
DATE : Mon Jan 27 08:27:45 2003

On Monday, Jan 27, 2003, at 09:48 US/Eastern, Kevin Bohan wrote:

> I just looked at the following:
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreFoundation/

> BundleServices/Bundle_Services_Concepts/index.html>
>
> and I quote:
>
> "...Localized resources that need not be region specific should be 
> placed in folders named simply for the language, such as English.lproj 
> or Japanese.lproj.".


> It's a little mixed up, because before this it seems to suggest what 
> you say:
>
> "...Region specific resource folders should take their names from the 
> ISO 3166 standard for country codes, and the ISO 639 standard for 
> language codes...."
>
> but then goes on to be very specific about the name of the Japanese 
> folder being Japanese.lproj.
>
> Am I missing something or is the documentation incorrect/misleading?


   You're missing the difference between "language" and "region". For 
example:

French.lproj contains resources that should be common to all French 
speakers, wherever they are (Canada, France, wherever).
fr_FR.lproj contains resources that are specific to French speakers in 
France
fr_CA.lproj contains resources that are specific to French speakers in 
Canada

The first one is not region specific
The last two are region specific