Bug#664486: marked as done (Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer)

2014-03-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#664420: marked as done (Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer)

2014-03-02 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:25:47 +0100 with message-id 20140302212547.ga25...@mraw.org and subject line Re: Bug#664420: About offering Latin-based Uyghur in Debian Installer has caused the Debian Bug report #664420, regarding Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer to be marked

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Eagle Burkut (eagle.bur...@gmail.com): ug_CN is a well established locale for Uyghur (Uighur) language in China, which uses modified Arabic-Persian. Then, what is the best way to name the Latin based Uyghur locale used globally? Should a locale be always tied up to a specific country?

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-19 Thread Eagle Burkut
Thank you very much for your reply and explanation. We will follow the advice and instruction. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.orgwrote: Quoting Eagle Burkut (eagle.bur...@gmail.com): ug_CN is a well established locale for Uyghur (Uighur) language in China,

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Eagle Burkut (eagle.bur...@gmail.com): Dear Debian Developers/Maintainers, How can we have new language/script on debian installer? Is there any requirement? If there is, what is the requirement? Ubuntu uses Debian Installer and it has Arabic based Uyghur. We need Latin based

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Eagle Burkut
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.orgwrote: Quoting Eagle Burkut (eagle.bur...@gmail.com): Dear Debian Developers/Maintainers, How can we have new language/script on debian installer? Is there any requirement? If there is, what is the requirement?

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Eagle Burkut
Package: Debian Installer On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.orgwrote: Quoting Eagle Burkut (eagle.bur...@gmail.com): Dear Debian Developers/Maintainers, How can we have new language/script on debian installer? Is there any requirement? If there is, what

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Eagle Burkut (eagle.bur...@gmail.com): While we have finished translating more than 95% translation string in Ubuntu (that is 350,000 sentences!), due to lots of bugs and inabilities in various libraries/packages/fonts, we got a localized Ubuntu with lots of bugs/errors. In summary,

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Eagle Burkut
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.orgwrote: Quoting Eagle Burkut (eagle.bur...@gmail.com): While we have finished translating more than 95% translation string in Ubuntu (that is 350,000 sentences!), due to lots of bugs and inabilities in various

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Eagle Burkut
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.orgwrote: I'm afraid, this is an incorrect use of locales. Country modifiers shouldn't be used for language variants. So a ug_US locale means nothing (Uyghur in United States of America? Why not ug_UK or ug_PT or whatever?).

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Eagle Burkut (eagle.bur...@gmail.com): But, really, ug_US should not happen and I doubt upstream glibc maintainers accept it. As long as they use different country code, it will work. ug_CN ug_KZ@cyrillic ug_US@latin (or ug_XX@latin, XX other than CN or KZ) For the Latin

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 07:13:43AM -0500, Eagle Burkut wrote: Before we came to that naming convention, we did a quite bit of research. There are couple of obstacles to adopt the other idea. First of all, the FontConfig library does not support with language/script variant with @ such as

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-18 Thread Eagle Burkut
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote: Yes, it is. What you're describing is a bug waiting to happen. For comparison: there is no translator who translates to the 'nl_BE' locale; all dutch translators translate to 'nl'. Yet there is no user who uses an

Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-17 Thread Eagle Burkut
Dear Debian Developers/Maintainers, How can we have new language/script on debian installer? Is there any requirement? If there is, what is the requirement? Ubuntu uses Debian Installer and it has Arabic based Uyghur. We need Latin based Uyghur too. Thanks. Ubuntu Uyghur Translation Group PS:

Re: Adding New Script Variants on Debian Installer

2012-03-17 Thread Eagle Burkut
Package: Debian Installer On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Eagle Burkut eagle.bur...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Debian Developers/Maintainers, How can we have new language/script on debian installer? Is there any requirement? If there is, what is the requirement? Ubuntu uses Debian Installer and