Larry Gusaas wrote: > On 2009/12/29 6:49 AM DrNoiZ wrote: >> but as I was downloading the Greek version for windows found out that there >> is a version in >> "macedonian" language. >> >> As I can recall there is no such language recognized in the whole world. > > Macedonian is the official language of Republic of Macedonia. Most > United Nations member countries have recognised the country as the > Republic of Macedonia. These include four of the five permanent UN > Security Council members—the United States, Russia, United Kingdom and > the People's Republic of China; several members of the European Union > such as Bulgaria, Poland, and Slovenia; and over 100 other UN members. > > It is only hate-mongering, narrow minded bigots that deny this.
Besides that: the dispute about "Macedonia" relates to the name of the country, not to the name of the language. Nowhere in OOo we refer to a country named "Macedonia", here we are talking about a *language*. And the term "Macedonian" is absolutely correct. ISO uses "MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF" as the name of the country: http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements but is uses "Macedonian" as the name of the language: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php So - as the pseudonym of the poster says - it's just noise. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
