Re: Self-Introduction: Carmen — Esperanto (also: How to add a new language in Zanata)

Carmen Bianca Bakker <[email protected]> Sun, 04 Nov 2018 14:28:52 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.internationalization
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Hi Rafal,

On ven, 2018-11-02 at 21:44 +0100, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> 30.10.2018 12:53 Carmen Bianca Bakker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [...] The problem, however, is
> > projects depending on a country being available.  Python's `locale`
> > library behaves weirdly with Esperanto, and all sorts of downstream
> > packages need to specially account for Esperanto because it's the odd
> > one out---usually resulting in it being ignored entirely, because to be
> > frank, Esperanto isn't the most common language.  And that's totally
> > understandable.
> 
> This sounds like a bug in a Python's "locale" library. Probably it is
> easy to fix but I don't volunteer to do it at the moment.

Correct.  I'll probably end up doing this myself soon.

> It is kinda ambiguous what it means that Fedora supports Esperanto
> (or any other language) because it may mean that the language is:
> 
> * supported by glibc (now done),
> * available in Zanata (done),
> * available as a choice in Anaconda,
> * available as a choice in system-config-language.
> 
> There may be other meanings but the list could be very long and
> eventually we would conclude that no language (except English) is perfectly
> supported by Fedora. :)
> 
> As a pattern you could review the issue tickets to add Filipino language
> in Fedora:
> 
> https://pagure.io/g11n/issue/43
> https://pagure.io/system-config-language/issue/3

Thanks, that looks quite useful :-)

I've also now filed the bug report with glibc.
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23857>

With kindness,
Carmen

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