[TYPO3-dev] Formal / Unformal language

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi Dmitry,

"Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]" <dmitry at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1187461168.31778.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>> this is a very general question.
>> In german there are many differences in formal / unformal languages, 
>> there is e.g. difference in salution
>> ("DU"-form and "SIE"-form)
>> I don't know which languages have this difference too.
>>
>> How would you handle this, would you create a new language like "deDu" ?
>> The main thing is to have another key for the locallang-files to provide 
>> both ways.
>
> This question is similar to question about having language variations, 
> such as "de-DE" or "de-CH". This problem is quite difficult to solve but 
> it is being thought of.
>

for those differences i would define another language like de / ch / at
But the problem would be that noone supports that language except the one 
defining it.

Formal/informal could be implemented like Oliver suggested.
How is this in russion / finnish, do they have difference in formal/informal 
?

vg  Steffen

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