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[Kyle Nitzsche <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was not quite correct about this

It turns out that I can add fr_CA (French Canada (which is not defined in the 
.cls file) and pt_BR (which is).

However, building a pdf fails when I inserted those codes into a po file's 
msgstr, for example like this:
msgid "Introduction to Launchpad"
msgstr "fr_CA: Intro"

The underscore has to be escaped, like this, and all is well:
msgid "Introduction to Launchpad"
msgstr "fr\\_CA: Intro"

I have never encountered the requirement that underscores be escaped in po 
translations before and wonder if this is an artifact of po4a. I also wonder 
whether translations done through the normal LP & Ubuntu Translators process 
will potentially break this. I will determine these answers.

Cheers,
Kyle

On 01/06/2011 12:15 AM, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
> It *seems* that  adding a simple iso locale ("lingua") that wasn't previously 
> configured for ubuntu manual (from which this project inherits) doesn't work 
> because (I think) the toolchain uses tex & polyglossia, which has it's own set 
> of supported languages and different language codes than Ubuntu and ISO.
>
> See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/10.10/DeveloperManual/BuildPDFs, 
> section: "This (fr_CA) Doesn't Work Yet"
>
> (However "de" works just by adding the po file and adding "de" to LINGUAS, 
> because that *is* an Ubuntu & ISO standard code and a polyglossia lingua code 
> and was configured in ubuntu manual, from which we inherit)
>
> So the configuration of a new lingua requires specific (and not entirely known 
> ;) configurations.
>
> Perhaps one of the Ubuntu Manual/texlive experts can show what is needed to 
> add two or three generic linguas, like French Canada (fr_CA), that are not 
> already configured?
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
>
>
>
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