nguillaumin/osmtracker-android — pull request #6 by dittaeva (2012-02-15 08:59:53+00:00)
Title: Need no locale in addition to nb and nn

It seems Norwegian language support isn't ideal in Android. There are two written forms of Norwegian, which each have their own ISO code: Norwegian bokmål (nb) and Norwegian Nynorsk (nn). Unfortunately "Norwegian" without any for specification also has an ISO code: no.

By law they are equal in Norway, but in practice, bokmål is far more prevalent and in use (80-90 % of written text is probably bokmål).

It seems both no and nb are used in Android: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5153674/android-localization-question

The only practical way to solve this seems to be to have two copies of Norwegian bokmål, one under "nb" and one under "no". Symbolic links are not supported on FAT filesystems, and thus the app cant be moved to memory cards, string aliases doesn't seem to be practical as one would still need to make the string files containing aliases(?), and I don't know of any way to "prioritize" languages (if no "no", then use "nb").

I've added a readme file to all folders containing nb and no noting that they should be kept in sync.

The "nb" Android market text should probably also be copied to "no".