"Francois" == Francois Gouget fgouget@codeweavers.com writes:
Francois> --- I have used two sources to update Wine's timezone data:
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Francois> The display name was set to the Olson database ids and I have Francois> kept it that way as it seems to match what is displayed on Francois> Linux. Wherever we used old names I switched to the new names Francois> as specified in the Olson database.
Francois> We still have a few differences with the Windows data and in a Francois> few instances I diverged from the CLDR mapping to tzids. I Francois> will now summarize all these differences in bug 7295.
How do internaltional version of Windows get the localized names of the pletora of timezones?
Uwe Bonnes wrote: [...]
How do internaltional version of Windows get the localized names of the pletora of timezones?
Apparently the registry keys and values themselves are translated, at least in NT4. That does not seem scalable at all so I don't know if that's still the approach they use.