mixed language/country codes in locale directory

[adonishi]

(this issue related to issue #100 )

in the directory of /locale in carmen, there are 2-letter code directories for each languages. (I guess they are languages and not countries. fix me if I am wrong.)
but some of directory names are country code, not language code.

so far country codes are 'China' & 'Japan'. they should be 'Chinese' & 'Japanese'. ('zh' & 'ja')

list of names in /locale directory.

• cn:country 'China' (lang = zh )
• cs:lang 'Czech'
• de:lang/country 'German/Germany'
• en:lang 'English'
• es:lang/country 'Spanish; Castilian/Spain'
• fi:lang/country 'Finnish/Finland'
• fr:lang/country 'French/France'
• hi:lang 'Hindi'
• it:lang/country 'Italian/Italy'
• jp:country 'Japan' (lang = ja)
• ko:lang 'Korean'
• nl:lang/country 'Dutch/Netherlands'
• pl:lang/country 'Polish/Poland'
• pt:lang/country 'Portuguese/Portugal'
• ru:lang/country 'Russian/Russian Federation'
• sk:lang/country 'Slovak/Slovakia'
• sv:lang(/country) 'Swedish(/El Salvador)'
• tr:lang/country 'Turkish/Turkey'

ref.
language tag ISO-639-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
country code ISO-3166-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

[adonishi]

Sorry! I made one mistake!
Chinese language 2-letter code is 'zh' (not 'cn').
so...

so far country codes are 'China' & 'Japan'. they should be 'Chinese' & 'Japanese'. ('zh' & 'ja')

and

• cn:country 'China' (lang = zh )

[jim]

You are correct. The locale/ directory does use country codes where it should use language codes. I'll have to write a little code to make these changes backwards-compatible, but it does seem like standardizing on language codes is worthwhile. Thanks for reporting this issue.