From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 20 2002 - 01:11:47 EDT
--- Francesco Cheratzu <f.cheratzu@tiscali.it> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just recently subscribed to this list but
> with other friends we have been working some time
> now with the Sardinian translation of Abiword
> strings and spelling checker.
> We actually got hold of the Italian and English
> string list (it-IT.strings), made the changes,
> compiled and tried it out.
>
> May this work be in some way recovered? If so, how
> must the file be named? (e.g. srd-SRD.strings or has
> an abbreviation been already assigned?)
The first part is the ISO 639 language code and *only*
the ISO 639 language code. This is "sc". Where there
is a 2-letter code and a 3-letter code, we always use
the two-letter code. The second part must be the ISO
3166 country code. Sardinia is not a country and has
no ISO 3166 country code. In this case we just leave
it out. We *must not* invent codes ourselves. This
will only break in the future.
If this bug:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3227
is fixed some day, it may be possible to add an
equivalent to the region field. According to
Ethnologue there are 4 recognized dialects of
Sardinian so we could specify the SIL codes for these
but we cannot use SIL codes in our current, ISO
scheme.
It's probably a good idea to note which of these
dialects we'll be using though and to try to avoid
mixing dialects if at all possible.
Andrew Dunbar.
> The spelling checker is almost complete (it is based
> on the dictionary which may be seen in
> www.ditzionariu.org) and shall be released soon. It
> has a basis of nearly 85.000 words (+ generation of
> plurals, verbs, etc.).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francesco Cheratzu
>
>
>
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