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a thing · Apr 8th, 2006, 9:26 PM

I'm relying on $LANG to tell me the user's location for mirror selection. For Europe I have:
en | fr | de | it | hr | sv | fi | no | 'nl' | el

For Asia:
zh | jp | ko

Any suggestions for additions?

(US is en_US not en)

a thing · Apr 8th, 2006, 10:12 PM

Added pl to Europe.

Ooble · Apr 9th, 2006, 9:28 AM

If you load up your Internet browser and go into the options screen, and hit the Edit Languages button or something, you'll see a big, big list of them.

mackenga · Jul 12th, 2006, 5:22 PM

Off the top of my head, I suggest adding "es" (for Spain), but Ooble's already given the definitive answer here. Alternatively, you might get some luck googling for country codes.

free-zombie · Jul 14th, 2006, 10:10 AM

you should rely on the narion part of the locale, i.e.
% echo $LANG | sed 's/.._$..$.*/\1/'

note: I am in Germany and use en_GB.UTF-8 and have used en_US.ISO-8859-1 in the past. Meaning: you cannot rely 100% on the locale. I am sure many people outside the GB or US use those locales.

Dameon · Jul 14th, 2006, 10:25 AM

Pinging usually gets the job done, too.

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Apr 8th, 2006, 10:12 PM	#2
a thing Unverified User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: none Posts: 146 Rep Power: 0	Added pl to Europe. __________________ Warning: My posts may change (dramatically) within the first 15 minutes they're posted. Got 'Nux?�GNU/Linux and other free software support. It's GNU/Linux, not just Linux.

Apr 9th, 2006, 9:28 AM	#3
Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 8	If you load up your Internet browser and go into the options screen, and hit the Edit Languages button or something, you'll see a big, big list of them. __________________ Me :: You :: Them

Jul 12th, 2006, 5:22 PM	#4
mackenga Professional Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 314 Rep Power: 4	Off the top of my head, I suggest adding "es" (for Spain), but Ooble's already given the definitive answer here. Alternatively, you might get some luck googling for country codes. __________________ "I'm not a genius. Why do I have to suffer?"

Jul 14th, 2006, 10:10 AM	#5
free-zombie Programmer Join Date: May 2006 Location: Bavaria, Germany Posts: 50 Rep Power: 0	you should rely on the narion part of the locale, i.e. % echo $LANG \| sed 's/.._\(..\).*/\1/' note: I am in Germany and use en_GB.UTF-8 and have used en_US.ISO-8859-1 in the past. Meaning: you cannot rely 100% on the locale. I am sure many people outside the GB or US use those locales.

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Dameon Troll Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 730 Rep Power: 4	Pinging usually gets the job done, too. __________________ MD5(sig) = bcef75433db02e9ad9bf81d6f7c5c270

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