Hi Pau, On Tuesday, 2010-03-30 17:35:58 +0200, Pau Iranzo wrote:
> Does this means that localizers decide the language code? No. Usually the codes are quite obvious, but at a last instance I approve the codes and also assign the MS-LCID of the user-space to be used if there doesn't already exist one. > I mean, if a team from Venezuela decides to start a new localization > in Spanish and they say: "this is Venezuelan, code vz or qvz", should > we accept that translation? Even knowing that this is Spanish from > Venezuela?. No, we wouldn't, unless there would be some similar political stubbornness.. > Valencian and Catalan are the same language Well, tell that the Valencian language separatists.. > and there is already a code for Valencian locale: ca_XV Which we made up as a workaround for this weird situation. > (or ca-valencia accepted by the IANA). The > Valencian localizers have been using qcv_ES in their linux distribution > (Liurex) for a while avoiding whatever related to the name "Catalan" and > using the qcv_ES instead. That is the reason I'll now add qcv-ES for this l10n, so there will at least be some consistency. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=110522 > It is very important for us (people who speak Catalan/Valencian) to be > identified with the same code. It doesn't make sense to be identified as > different languages. Personally I have the same opinion, the language code should be 'ca' for both. > The Valencian localizers should change their original code qcv for the > ca-valencia or ca_XV and not the other. If not, the name for this > localization cannot be "Valencian". This is a political problem, and as a consequence we add these workarounds and now add qcv-ES as well. Software won't solve political problems. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. SunSign 0x87F8D412 : 2F58 5236 DB02 F335 8304 7D6C 65C9 F9B5 87F8 D412 OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to the e...@sun.com account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Use er...@sun.com Thanks.
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