Bug 583758 – Invalid entries in LINGUAS USE expand variable (linguas.desc)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ulrich Müller 2016-05-22 08:19:22 UTC]

The following entries in linguas.desc are not valid (see also BCP 47 validator http://schneegans.de/lv/):

   en_EN - English locale
      "EN" is not a valid region subtag.

   me - Montenegrin (Crnogorski) locale
      "me" is not a valid language tag.

   ns - Northern Sotho locale
      "ns" is not a valid language tag.
      Presumably, "nso - Northern Sotho locale" should be used instead.

   ru_RU_0 - Russian locale for Russia
      Not well-formed.

Then there is also:

   es_LA - Spanish locale for Latin America

This is technically valid, but "LA" is the region subtag of Laos, not Latin America which has "419". An entry for es_419 exists and should be used instead.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2016-05-22 08:56:59 UTC]

fake_bidi
jp
ru_gold
ven

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2016-05-22 09:00:58 UTC]

Furthermore, the following invalid entries are used in the tree, but not listed in linguas.desc:

   fake_bidi
      www-client/google-chrome{,-beta,-unstable}

   jp
      app-text/tesseract
      dev-lang/ifc

   ru_gold
      games-strategy/ja2-stracciatella

   ven
      /media-gfx/digikam
      media-plugins/kipi-plugins

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2018-01-08 20:00:42 UTC]

All fixed, removed, or migrated to L10N. Closing.