Re: [PATCH] helpfiles: Also accept 'UTF-8' as an encoding name.

[Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-11-13 at 18:28 +0000, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> There are so many "standards" for locale names that I really do not know
> what is the best: For instance, for the similar "de" (which might
> perhaps also be checked) there are besides de_* also fy_DE and hsb_DE on
> a Debian installation at my institute (though I do not know what
> they mean).

ISO 639 language code, followed by ISO 3166 region tag identifying a
regional dialect.

"en_US" is "English as spoken in the USA", "en_GB" is "English as spoken
in Britain".

"fy" is Frisian, as it spoken in the north-east of The Netherlands and
apparently also in Germany, per "fy_DE".

"hsb" appears to be "Upper Sorbian", per
<http://www.ethnologue.com/language/hsb>.

The POSIX locale stuff is not using the same separators as RFC5646 but
the same loose principles apply.

-Phil