https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63460
Priority: medium Bug ID: 63460 Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org Summary: Northern/Central/Southern Kurdish Severity: enhancement Classification: Unclassified OS: All Reporter: tima...@gmail.com Hardware: Other Status: UNCONFIRMED Version: unspecified Component: Localization Product: LibreOffice Locales for LibreOffice only include Northern Kurdish, and it's named "Kurdish" instead of the correct "Kurdish, Northern" (Kurdish encompasses all variants of the language, it's unspecific). Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish need to be added too since they are basically different languages. Central and Southern Kurdish use a modified arabic script by default and are RTL whereas Northern Kurdish by default uses latin script and is LTR. I will suggest the mappings without country codes, this is because the variants of Kurdish are similar throughout each country and there's not much of a use in separating things by country. If country codes are an absolute must I can suggest them anyway. The three letter 639-3 codes should be used in the locale settings for the Kurdish variations and not the two letter 639-1 codes, the suggested names in the following list should be used and not simply "Kurdish". --- Codes and mappings (ISO 639-3): Mapping: ckb Info: RTL, unicode Language list: English: Kurdish, Central French: Kurde, Centrale German: Kurdisch, Zentral Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Sorani Swedish: Kurdiska, Central Turkish: Kürtçe, Orta Mapping: ckb-Latn Language list: English: Kurdish, Central (latin) French: Kurde, Centrale (latin) German: Kurdisch, Zentral (lateinisch) Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Sorani (latînî) Swedish: Kurdiska, Central (latinsk) Turkish: Kürtçe, Orta (latin) Mapping: kmr Language list: English: Kurdish, Northern French: Kurdes du nord German: Kurdisch, Nördliches Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Kurmancî Swedish: Kurdiska, Nordlig Turkish: Kürtçe, Kuzey Mapping: sdh Info: RTL, unicode Language list: English: Kurdish, Southern French: Kurdes du sud German: Kurdische, Süd Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Xwarig Swedish: Kurdiska, Sydlig Turkish: Kürtçe, Güney Mapping: sdh-Latn Language list: English: Kurdish, Southern (latin) French: Kurdes du sud (latin) German: Kurdische, Süd (lateinisch) Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Xwarig (latînî) Swedish: Kurdiska, Sydlig (latinsk) Turkish: Kürtçe, Güney (latin) note: About the ku-TR and ku-SY that are currently there: change the language list name for them from "Kurdish" to "Kurdish, Northern". This means that there will be three "Kurdish, Northern" in total (ku-TR, ku-SY and kmr). All language tools and localizations should be updated and assigned to kmr (and not to ku), once that's done I guess ku-TR and ku-SY can be removed. If someone still wants to differentiate between Northern Kurdish in different countries, then the mappings kmr-XX can be used (and not ku-XX as ku is the macrolanguage kurdish and not specifically Northern Kurdish). note 2: sdh-Latn and ckb-Latn are LTR and use the same script as kmr. I think they use unicode, but I'm not 100%. note 3: In the language list, when I write "Kurdish, Northern:", I mean the localization that is currently named "Kurdish". Like I said, this localization should be renamed to "Kurdish, Northern". --- Microsoft added Central Kurdish to Windows 8 and Office 2013. Here are the LCIDs for Windows 8 (they're probably the same for Office 2013): Central Kurdish, 0x0092, ku Central Kurdish, 0x7c92, ku-Arab Central Kurdish Iraq, 0x0492, ku-Arab-IQ (source: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/E/95EF66AF-9026-4BB0-A41D-A4F81802D92C/[MS-LCID].pdf ) A Word 2013 document written in sorani/arabic script and marked as "Central Kurdish Iraq" is assigned the code "ku-Arab-IQ" in the xml, just as the Microsofts LCID list says (so 0x0492 should be linked to "ckb"). Text written in latin can't be assigned "Central Kurdish Iraq" in Word 2013, this indicates that "Central Kurdish Iraq" ("ku-Arab-IQ") is reserved for sorani/arabic script only. Perhaps then, "ku" is reserved for Central Kurdish latin (if true then 0x0092 should be linked to "ckb-Latn") and "ku-Arab" for Central Kurdish throughout all countries – ie Iraq+Iran – meaning that 0x7c92 should be linked to "ckb". But it's hard to say at the moment. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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