switching to en as the default locale

[Matthew East]

Jeff Schering <jeffschering <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On 1/30/06, Matthew East <mdke <at> ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Are you sure scrollkeeper supports "en" like it should?
> >

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> > Given this, I think it may not be worth abandoning the C locale. Thoughts?
> >
> 
> It sounds to me like there's a bug in scrollkeeper. The proper
> workaround is to provide a translation for en. C is not a locale for
> documents.

This would involve patching scrollkeeper, and probably providing a fix upstream.
Even if we do this, we also need to make sure that scrollkeeper uses "en" as a
fallback when there is no translation for the relevant locale, rather than C.
The fact that gnome documentation uses C is also a powerful reason to keep the
current system, I think. But the most powerful one is that we are not too far
away from a release, and it sounds like the barriers to this are quite
substantial. Until we know exactly what has to be done for this to work, I
really don't think we should switch this close to a release.
 
> We may also find that for one reason or another we may have to switch
> to Apache xslt processing tools (or some other tool chain), and not be
> able to make the switch because those tools might not be as forgiving
> as xsltproc when it comes to non-existing documentation locales.

True, but I certainly can't see us switching toolchain before dapper.

Matt