Re: a new ru_BY locale is requested
"Pavel Piatruk" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.internationalization.belarusian |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
2008/6/30, Alexander Mikhailian <[email protected]>: > > Hello, I am listed as a maintainer of the be_BY locale. There's been a > discussion on the [email protected] [1] mailing list around the creation of > the > ru_BY locale. > > The reasoning is as follows: > > 1. In Belarus, Russian is by far more popular than Belarusian. Варта адзначыць, што гэта афіцыйна дзяржаўная мова, разам з беларускай. 2. Most of the local GNU/Linux users live happily with the ru_RU locale. > 3. Some things, e.g. the default encoding, the currency, the phone prefix, > the name of the country itself differ in the belarusian variant > of Russian. > 4. By introducing the new locale, we fixing those issues. > > > _______________________________________________ > I18n mailing list > [email protected] > http://mova.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/i18n > > _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [email protected] http://mova.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/i18n