How to set the parent pack?

How to set the parent pack?

by N Hansen -
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In the instructions for making small customizations to a language pack, there is the following line:

"Instead, use the instructions above for making a brand new language pack, and set the parent language (in moodle.php) to be the language that is most similar to yours. "

It seems to me this is only necessary when the parent language is something other than English. Am I correct in my understanding?
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Re: How to set the parent pack?

by koen roggemans -
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Yes indeed. For the Dutch lang-pack we left the field empty, so Englisch becomes the parent language.

But when someone would make a customization on the Dutch lang-pack, he would have to put nl for the parent language