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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 29 16:25:30 +0000
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OK, let me explain briefly our current status and why we'd like to find a
solution of some form in the short term rather than the longer term.
We have made a spell checker for the cyrillic form of Mongolian, and we've also
developed support for the traditional Mongolian script, including an Open Type
font with most of the rendering rules for determining the correct forms of the
letters in the words. These are currently built on top of OOo2.4, and, as far as
we are aware, there is no usable version of either of these things except ours.
We would therefore like to make both of these "officially" available as soon as
possible (i.e. before someone else implements the same things on another
platform ;-) ) to encourage as many Mongolian users as possible to use OOo.
If I understand the discussion we've had so far correctly (and please correct me
if I don't), the situation currently is as follows:
1) there is a fixed list of "valid" languages, and we can only use languages
from that list.
2) each of the languages in the list has a fixed language type - Western, CTL,
or Asian.
3) we can have country variants of a language (e.g. mn-MN, etc.), but all of
these must have the same language type as the basic language.
4) if/when the "script" attribute of a language is implemented, it will be
possible for different scripts to have different language types.
Assuming all this is correct, the following 2 possibilities occur to me:
1) Is there some sort of "dummy"/"wildcard"/"other" language defined in the list
of languages? If so, we could temporarily use "other"-mn for the second version
of Mongolian. (Yes, I know this is a hack, but at least it would allow us to
include both forms of Mongolian now and I guess a lot of the work would be
reusable after the script attribute is implemented.)
2) Is it possible to make a branch in the development, and have one form of
Mongolian included in the official OOo3.1 and the other form included in an
unofficial version? (I'm thinking of branch points as in the CVS version control
system.) We could then develop the two scripts independently on the two branches
(i.e. one branch follows plan A and one branch follows plan B), and then merge
the branches when the script attribute is implemented. This is of course not
ideal for Mongolian users who want to use both scripts because they need both
versions of the system, but it's still better than only having support for one
script.
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