Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-09 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 04.09.2011 02:43, schrieb Peter Junge: > On 04.09.2011 06:47, Jomar Silva wrote: >> A huge +1 on that ! >> >> Jomar >> >> PS.: A Klingon OpenOffice would be amazing to see :) > > AFAIR that was one of the first language projects back in 2001 (or so), > at least it was discussed, but was never

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: 1) What constitutes a language is as much a political and cultural question as a linguistic one. No sense debating it here. Ultimately what matters to us is whether ISO assigned a code to the language or not, so a technical issue; as I wrote earlier, it did in ISO 639-2 (Neap

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-04 Thread Marcus (OOo)
BTW: IMHO there was a similar discussion if and how to integrate the Catalan language variante spoken in Valencian beside the normal Catalan one. At the end we have enabled and integrated translation for Valencian - also because there was a strong support to do all the work - as you can see h

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-04 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Klingon is already enabled as language. However, the translation rate with 0 % is, hm, improveable. ;-) Marcus Am 09/04/2011 12:47 AM, schrieb Jomar Silva: A huge +1 on that ! Jomar PS.: A Klingon OpenOffice would be amazing to see :) On 2011/8/3 19:24 Rob Weir wrote: OK. Before someon

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Peter Junge wrote: > On 04.09.2011 06:47, Jomar Silva wrote: >> >> A huge +1 on that ! >> >> Jomar >> >> PS.: A Klingon OpenOffice would be amazing to see :) > > AFAIR that was one of the first language projects back in 2001 (or so), at > least it was discussed, but

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Peter Junge
On 04.09.2011 06:47, Jomar Silva wrote: A huge +1 on that ! Jomar PS.: A Klingon OpenOffice would be amazing to see :) AFAIR that was one of the first language projects back in 2001 (or so), at least it was discussed, but was never released. On 2011/8/3 19:24 Rob Weir wrote: OK. Befor

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Jomar Silva
A huge +1 on that ! Jomar PS.: A Klingon OpenOffice would be amazing to see :) On 2011/8/3 19:24 Rob Weir wrote: OK. Before someone starts saying nasty things about Garibaldi, it >would be good to state some things I hope we all agree on: > > >1) What constitutes a language is as much a poli

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi; --- On Sat, 9/3/11, Dale Erwin wrote: ... > > Spoken like a true northern Italian bigot... with all due > respect. > > Please note I did not call you a northern Italian bigot... > I said you speak like one.  Maybe you are just > misinformed. > I should've thought better before my original

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
OK. Before someone starts saying nasty things about Garibaldi, it would be good to state some things I hope we all agree on: 1) What constitutes a language is as much a political and cultural question as a linguistic one. No sense debating it here. 2) OpenOffice.org has a rich history of offer

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Andrea and Dale; Ugh... I'll take back everything I wrote ... sorry. The classification between languages or dialects in Italy, is something that I know very well not to get into. Yes, I've had my doze of Naepolitan, Friulian, Roman, and Triestin. cheers, Pedro. --- On Sat, 9/3/11, Andrea

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Dale Erwin
On 9/2/2011 10:23 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Hi Dale; With due respect to Italy's cultural richness (which I so much admire being italian myself but not only because of that), Neapolitan is classified as a dialect, not a language, for good reasons. Compared to standard italian you use the same

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Neapolitan is classified as a dialect, not a language, for good reasons. It's in ISO 639-2 so it's a language, and it's distinct from Italian. Among the local languages spoken in Italy, we already fully support the four variants of Sardinian according to ISO 639-3 (Cam

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-02 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Dale; With due respect to Italy's cultural richness (which I so much admire being italian myself but not only because of that), Neapolitan is classified as a dialect, not a language, for good reasons. Compared to standard italian you use the same character set and gramatical rules. Furthermore

Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-02 Thread Rob Weir
Hi Dale, I'm forwarding your question to the Apache list where OpenOffice development discussions are now taking place. Hopefully someone here has an answer to your question, about how to get started making a new language translation of OpenOffice. Regards, -Rob -- Forwarded message ---