[TYPO3-50-general] Locale representation in folder Meta/Documentation/Manual

[Martin Kutschker]

David Bruehlmeier schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> the Reference requires a new folder for each locale in
> the Meta/Documentation/Manual folder:
> 
> http://flow3.typo3.org/documentation/reference/packages/
> 
> The example given is Manual/en_EN/.
> 
> I'm not sure where _EN comes from, so I did a little research.
> 
> There does not seem to be a standard "everybody" agrees on, but the
> greatest common denominator seems to be:
> 
>   Locale = [LanguageCode] ["_" TerritoryCode] ["_" Variant];
>   LanguageCode = (* ISO 639-2 Two Letter Code [1] *);
>   TerritoryCode = (* ISO ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 Two Letter Code [2] *);
>   Variant = (* POSIX, WIN, etc. Not strictly standardized *);

I just found on my Suse a few locales that use the ISO-639-3 three letter 
code for uncommon languages. Maybe its better to use the three letter code 
for all languages instead of using both codes.

Masi