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en
british english-
en-us
us-american-english
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es
spanishes-mx
mexican spanishes-x-tu
spanish (casual)
de
germande-x-sie
german (formal)
In most cases, only a few words are different from the basic form, and as of that, only a few language string differ between "parent" and "child" language pack.
So, the idea is, introducing a language inheritance working the same way as style inheritance.
This would give translaters some advantages:
- Language variants are easier to publish, because you can condense them to the differences, no need for the translation team to check if all
- On upgrading phpBB versions, most commonly only the basic language pack has to be updated
- If all language packs inherit from english (like most styles from prosilver), there will not be ugly looking uppercase language variables in the user's front end, but "correct" english text