a2po does not support ISO 639-2 language codes

[albertvaka]

Since Android 5.0 [1] is now possible to use ISO 639-2 language codes [2] like «ast» for localization files (values-xxx). While trying to import an "ast.po" file using a2po import, I get the following error:

    [failed] ast is not a valid locale

Can you add support for these three-letter language codes?

[1] https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63358
[2] http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php

[miracle2k]

I won't have time to add this any time soon, but would of course accept a pull request.

[albertvaka]

It seems to be a limitation in Babel. I opened an issue with them [1], but if it can't be easily fixed there I will submit a PR here to ignore these kind of errors. Would that be okay?

[1] python-babel/babel#285

[miracle2k]

If a workaround is possible, sure. I don't know if it is important that we have a Babel instance.

[albertvaka]

It looks like it's not a but. Installing a newer version of Babel fixed the issue.

Sorry and thank you!

[albertvaka]

Finally, it looks like the current version of android2po in the pip repo (1.2) depends on an older version of Babel where this is still an issue. Can you make a release of the current git master, so a version without this problem is available through pip?

[albertvaka]

@miracle2k Any updates? It would be awesome if you could make a new release :) There have been many changes and fixes since the last version, including the fix for this bug. Thanks a lot for your time!

[miracle2k]

I pushed a new version.