[TYPO3-core] RFC #16842: Add Canadian French language to TYPO3 core

[François Suter]

Hi,

Good to see that the "qc" solution was finally adopted and that Québec 
French can finally enter TYPO3 officially, although it is of course 
suboptimal as it should really be a variant of French.

> Should we add all the other languages and language/country combinations
> in the world at the same time? Dutch (Belgium), French (Switzerland),
> English (Great-Britain), English (United States), etc.

No, we shouldn't, as TYPO3 does not know how to handle language variants 
(hence the use of "qc" instead of "fr_CA"). Neither does the translation 
server. It would of course be great if both did, but it seems like no 
one - until now - was sufficiently motivated to tackle the issue. 
Support in the core would probably not be very complicated. Improving 
the language server is far more complicated, as languages and their 
variants need to be related together. I think nobody dares touch the 
translation server because the to-do list is daunting. The latest try 
was a GSoC project 2 years ago, but it led nowhere unfortunately.

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch