Re: Using Language code in HTMLHelp

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Jens Stavnstrup wrote:

> I am sorry to say this, but I am not sure this was such a good idea.
> Now you have introduced a system specific (HTMLHelp) value, in the
> otherwise system neutral gentext files (I prefered your windows
> specific language.xml file located in the htmlhelp directory).

Role of gentext is to supply language dependant information to XSL and 
DSSSL stylesheets. HTML Help language code is one type of a such 
information. HTML Help is now integral part of XSL stylesheets (it 
wasn't at it's beginnings) so there is no reason to use different 
mechanism similar to gentext.

> In TDG, norm describes the lang attribute as a language code (perhaps 
> extended with  the countrycode). It was that interpretation I was 
> interested in:
> 
> So you would be able to say "en_UK", and not just "en", which now will
> by default be US.

Sure. Stylesheets can handle this. If there is need, there could be 
en_uk.xml and en_us.xml files different for US and British English. But 
I don't think that there are differences in localization texts for these 
two variants of English. I'm also not aware of any differneces in HTML 
Help processing for different variants of English.

If you still want to override some settings for country based 
sublanguage, you can put this into your customization file:

<i18n xmlns="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0">
   <l10n language="en_uk">
     <context name="htmlhelp">
       <template name="langcode" text="0x0809 English (UNITED KINGDOM)"/>
     </context>
   </l10n>
</i18n>

I think that new mechanism is better because it allows you to override 
langcode without need to modify base stylesheets.

					Jirka

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