for anyone else wondering about aym.po deletions. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [sugarlabs/terminal-activity] Albanian strings and delete aym.po (#21) To: sugarlabs/terminal-activity < reply+004d55d493499968512606d795b2ececce3becb45a63a58592cf00000001142e3d6492a169ce0b185...@reply.github.com > Cc: sugarlabs/terminal-activity <terminal-activ...@noreply.github.com>, Mention <ment...@noreply.github.com>
Gonzalo, tldr Because it is the wrong code to use for Aymara. aym was an early choice of isocode for Aymara, unfortunately it is a macrolanguage code and thereby might tend to crowd out use of more specific language codes for Aymara (there are distinct language codes ayc and ayr that are more specific under the Aymara macrolanguage code aym). All of our Aymara work is captured under the ayc code and the aym files are redundant. Our variation of Aymara is ayc (as common in Peru, and distinct from ayc, which is more Bolivian). The upstream glibc locale for Linux is ayc_PE. The aym files we have are redundant and less complete that those under ayc in Pootle and our repos. It makes sense to clean them out when the opportunity presents itself to avoid confusion. I'm writing up a policy that I'll be pushing on the glibc and CLDR locale development communities that strongly discourages the use of macrolanguage codes in locale development in favor of the more specific language codes nested under the macrolanguage isocode, whereever possible. This actually a wider problem with indigenous language families and our use of quz for Quechua (Cusco-Collao) is intended to avoid similar issues of confusion with the other 37 members of the qu macrolanguage. It is in keeping with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to respect their diverse cultural heritages by honoring distinctions made as to language classification while still working within the accepted ISO-639 standards family. It is just the right thing to do. cjl On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <notificati...@github.com> wrote: > @leonardcj <https://github.com/leonardcj> , just to know, why remove the > aym translation? > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/sugarlabs/terminal-activity/pull/21#issuecomment-257186466>, > or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE1V1MDj-i7CjbvViQ_uO2pRSxOEIYLAks5q5SFkgaJpZM4KkaE5> > . >
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