LINTIAN

# `incorrect-locale-code`

The package appears to ship locales for a language but uses an incorrect locale code as a subdirectory of `/usr/share/locale`. This usually results in users of the intended target language not finding the locale. The language codes used in the locale directories are those from the ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 standards, not those usually used as TLDs (which are from the ISO 3166 standard).

When both standards define a language code for a given language, the ISO 639-1 code should be used (i.e. the two lettered code).

Lintian only knows about some commonly-mistaken set of incorrect locale codes.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag