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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Notes on language codes for Norwegian docbook processing...</div>
  24       <div class="date">10th August 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>In <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> one can specify
  26 the language used at the top, and the processing pipeline will use
  27 this information to pick the correct translations for 'chapter', 'see
  28 also', 'index' etc.  And for most languages used with docbook, I guess
  29 this work just fine.  For example a German user can start the document
  30 with &lt;book lang="de"&gt;, and the document will show up with the
  31 correct content with any of the docbook processors.  This is not the
  32 case for the language
  33 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Culture_in_Norwegian___5_chapters_done__74_percent_left_to_do.html">I
  34 am working with at the moment</a>, Norwegian Bokmål.</p>
  35
  36 <p>For a while, I was confused about which language code to use,
  37 because I was unable to find any language code that would work across
  38 all tools.  I am currently testing dblatex, xmlto, docbook-xsl, and
  39 dbtoepub, and they do not handle Norwegian Bokmål the same way.  Some
  40 of them do not handle it at all.</p>
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  42 <p>A bit of background information is probably needed to understand
  43 this mess.  Norwegian is not one, but two written variants.  The
  44 variants are Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.  There are three
  45 two letter language codes associated with these languages, Norwegian
  46 is 'no', Norwegian Nynorsk is 'nn' and Norwegian Bokmål is 'nb'.
  47 Historically the 'no' language code was used for Norwegian Bokmål, but
  48 many years ago this was found to be å bad idea, and the recommendation
  49 is to use the most specific language code instead, to avoid confusion.
  50 In the transition period it is a good idea to make sure 'no' was an
  51 alias for 'nb'.</p>
  52
  53 <p>Back to docbook processing tools in Debian.  The dblatex tool only
  54 understand 'nn'.  There are translations for 'no', but not 'nb' (BTS
  55 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/684391">#684391</a>), but due to a bug
  56 (BTS <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/682936">#682936</a>) the 'no'
  57 language code is not recognised.  The docbook-xsl tool chain only
  58 recognise 'nn' and 'nb', but not 'no'.  The xmlto tool only recognise
  59 'nn' and 'nb', but not 'no'.  The end result that there is no language
  60 code I can use to get the docbook file working with all of these tools
  61 at the same time. :(</p>
  62
  63 <p>The correct solution is to use &lt;book lang="nb"&gt;, but it will
  64 take time before that will work with all the free software docbook
  65 processors. :(</p>
  66
  67 <p>Oh, the joy of well integrated tools. :/</p>
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