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how do i add my language (piefed.social)

submitted 5 days ago by Goten@piefed.social to c/piefed_help@piefed.social

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when i make a post in my language its not there, so how do i add it? thx :)

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Ah. We have a problem.

To transmit the language of a post to other fediverse instances, we need to encode the language as a IETF language tag. For example, English = 'en', Spanish is 'es' and so on. German is 'de'.

There is no official language code for Austrian. There is one for Austrian-German, which is 'de-AT'. PieFed could use that.

The language code for Bavarian is 'bar', which would also be ok.

In Lemmy their database that stores languages has a fixed size for the language code, which is 3. So 'de-AT' would not fit and it is likely that any post written in that language would be rejected by every Lemmy instance or incorrectly saved as English or "Undetermined". Lemmy should accept Bavarian, though.

So your choices are German or Bavarian, sorry.

[–] Goten@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

if you could add it as Austro-Bavarian (bar) ("Österreichisch-Bairisch") thx! :)

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have added "Bairisch". We need to be compatible with other servers so it's not really up to me to decide what bar is.

[–] Goten@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

thx!! :)

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