Re: How to add crh.po, and address@hidden locale's .po for gettext

[Abel Cheung]

On 9/2/06, Abel Cheung <address@hidden> wrote:

> Talking about submission of locale, is it a better idea or not to
> submit to belocs? I guess belocs would react faster, so that
> new locale is usable at least by all debian derived distro, is it?

Sorry for replying myself, I didn't make it very clear in last post.
What I have in mind is, does Ulrich Drepper still behave like this[1]?
If that is the case, I'm afraid it is simply a waste of time.

I also have been thinking about updating zh_hk locale data and
big5hkscs character conversion table as well, but become really
hesitant to do so due to difficulty in discussion.

[1] http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-01/msg00251.html

Abel



> Abel
>
>
> >
> > You "compile" the locale using the localedef utility, and start using it
> > by setting the LANG or LC_ALL environment variable, as described in
> > gettext's ABOUT-NLS file.
> >
> > Then you can already start creating localised PO files, "compile" them
> > using msgfmt, and install them in the locations (typically
> > /usr/share/locale/... or /usr/local/share/locale/...) where the programs
> > will expect it.
> >
> > You should also contact the translation projects (the Free Translation
> > Project at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/, the KDE localization
> > project, the GNOME localization project) and register with them, so that
> > someone else with the same ideas as you will be aware of your work and
> > not make duplicated efforts.
> >
> > Finally, a small note about "crh": According to
> >   http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2003-May/000969.html
> >   http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=crh
> > Crimean Turkish is written in Cyrillic script. If you want to provide a
> > locale that uses the Latin script for it, you should call it address@hidden;
> > if you want to provide a locale that uses the IQTELif script, you should
> > call it address@hidden (not address@hidden - the glibc maintainers don't want
> > abbreviations here). Even if a "crh" locale with Cyrillic script does
> > not yet exist.
> >
> > Bruno
> >
>
>
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