From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 00:14:39 EDT
--- Ivica Bogosavljevic <ivica84@ptt.yu> wrote:
> The first translation for Serbian language. I hope
> it's good ??!!?? I did the best I could.
In my fine tradition of mentioning things as they come
up, please interested parties now take a log at bug:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3227
Need to extend language tags
Serbian is a case in point, being written in both the
Latin and Cyrillic scripts. In this case Ivica has
given us the Latin version - thanks very much!
Problem is, when somebody also comes up with Cyrillic
versions, we don't have language tags to differentiate
them.
A similar problem usually goes unnoticed with
Chinese which uses both Traditional and Simplified
characters. The usual hack is to assume that the
Peoples's Republic and a couple of others use
Simplified and Hong Kong and a couple of others use
Traditional. Peeking at the region tag helps lets us
decide although in reality both sets of characters are
used quite commonly all over the place which is why
many in the i18n community think of it as a hack.
Correct me if I'm wrong but we can't use this trick
with Serbian since both scripts are used in serbia.
Don't confuse this issue with Serbocroatian which is
now considered as the three separate languages Serbian
(sv), Croatian (hr), and Bosnian (bs) - the latter two
are always written in Latin script AFAIK.
I've been thinking about creating a language class to
replace the direct use of language tags. Functions to
convert to actual tags would only be used when inter-
acting with non-AbiWord components such as document
formats and Linux locales. .abw would upgrade to more
expressive language identification tags.
Feedback in the mailing list or bug report greatly
appreciated as this is a pet issue of mine.
Andrew Dunbar.
> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-gunzip
name=sr-SR.tar.gz
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http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com
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