На вто, 2005-08-30 во 14:27 +0100, Simos Xenitellis напиша: Please, all of you, don't start with this issue here as it may attract a flamewar or smth.
Many languages of the minorty speaking population are still forbbiden in many of the Balkan countries but that doesn't stop a GNOME user to use the enviorment in his/her own language. If there's something I've learned from a few years of work with localization projects it's that we shouldn't waste time on politics, it will get us nowhere. -Arangel > According to the Human Rights Watch > (http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/turkey/turkey993-08.htm), > it appears that minority languages have been prohibited in Turkey. It > appears that the Kurdish language > has not been prohibited specifically (all minority languages suffered, > including Greek), but rather > the effect was worse on the Kurdish language as the population speaking > it was much larger > and there was no other country to develop it. > I am not sure if the consistution and the practices have changed since > 1999 (link?), though > the long legacy might be hard to change. > It appears that in neighbouring countries with Kurdish populations there > have been similar situations. > > Therefore, the point that Erdal makes could be rephrased from > "because it has been forbidden in Turkey" > to > "because it has been effectively prohibitited in Turkey until [date]" > > > >>The other difficulties are, as you said, economical underdevelopment and > >>little computer access. I am happy that the international free software > >>community - and especially the GNOME supports all kinds of localization > >>efforts. Because other players in the software market don't. > >> > >> > > > >I personally support every attemt to localize software for local > >market/usage. Kurdish is no exception. You can get support from our > >mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for sending Kurdish translations > >untill your cvs account will be ready, you can send your files to me and > >I can commit them to CVS. > > > > > I think this help would be great for the new language support. > > Simos _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n