# Translating NO (norway)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-no-norway/194734>\
**Category:** Rails I18n\
**Created:** [September 9, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-no-norway/194734 "2010-09-09T18:17:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joahking)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-no-norway/194734/1 "2010-09-09T18:17:10Z")

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hi there  
I have an app that keeps country codes to translate the country names,  
but  
Norway does not works, mainly because its country\_code is NO and that is  
reserved I guess.

how can I fix that?

thanks in advance

greetins  
joaquin

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**Author:** ![joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joahking)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-no-norway/194734/2 "2010-09-09T18:23:02Z")

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I believe you simply have to quote the NO

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**Author:** ![joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joahking)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-no-norway/194734/3 "2010-09-09T18:24:12Z")

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Give more details.

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**Author:** ![joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joahking)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-no-norway/194734/4 "2010-09-09T18:26:32Z")

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Yeah, that’s a classic YAML gotcha.  
foo: no  
sets foo to false.  
foo: “no”  
sets foo to “no”.

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**Author:** ![joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joahking)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-no-norway/194734/5 "2010-09-09T18:28:53Z")

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hi,  
I ment this:  
en:  
countries:  
#long list of country codes  
NO: Norway  
# and so on

but yes, replacing it with “NO” did the trick, thanks a lot

jk

2010/9/9 Henrik N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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> > > For more options, visit this group at  
> > > [http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n?hl=en).  
> > > For more options, visit this group at  
> > > [http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rails-i18n?hl=en).

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**Author:** ![joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@joahking](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joahking)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-no-norway/194734/6 "2010-09-10T11:38:37Z")

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Hi,

Norwegian codes are no-NB or no-NN depending on bokmål or nynorsk. This  
works for me.

Cheers,  
Trond