[Bug localedata/10935] New: Finnish yes/no option: add “o” for yes

[Bug localedata/10935] New: Finnish yes/no option: add “o” for yes

[martin dot pitt at ubuntu dot com]

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$ LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 locale -k -c LC_MESSAGES
LC_MESSAGES
yesexpr="^[KkJjYy].*"

In addition to “k” for “kyllä” and “j” for “joo”, “o” for “on” should also be
added for the affirmative response.

‘O’ is for ‘on’, which means ‘[it] is’ (or similar in other grammatical person,
as appropriate), and is how one responds to ‘Onko ...’ (‘Is it ...’), as an
alternative to ‘joo’ or ‘kyllä’ (‘yes’). Colloquially, people say ‘oo’ rather
than ‘on’, so the letter ‘o’ (in addition to ‘j’ and ‘k’) is appropriate.

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           Summary: Finnish yes/no option: add “o” for yes
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.8
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
        AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: martin dot pitt at ubuntu dot com
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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[Bug localedata/10935] Finnish yes/no option: add “o” for yes

[martin dot pitt at ubuntu dot com]

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------- Additional Comments From martin dot pitt at ubuntu dot com  2009-11-10 11:00 -------
Gosh, bugzilla, it's 2009, learn some Unicode.

Let's try this again:

In addition to 'k' for 'kyllä' and 'j' for 'joo', 'o' for 'on' should also be
added for the affirmative response.

'O' is for 'on', which means '[it] is' (or similar in other grammatical person,
as appropriate), and is how one responds to 'Onko ...' ('Is it ...'), as an
alternative to 'joo' or 'kyllä' ('yes'). Colloquially, people say 'oo' rather
than 'on', so the letter 'o' (in addition to 'j' and 'k') is appropriate.


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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Finnish yes/no option: add  |Finnish yes/no option: add
                   |“o” for yes     |“o” for yes


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[Bug localedata/10935] Finnish yes/no option: add “o” for yes

[myllynen at redhat dot com]

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------- Additional Comments From myllynen at redhat dot com  2009-11-17 09:38 -------
I think this would be an unnecessary addition. Grammatically both answers are
correct for your example question but 'kyllä' sounds perhaps slightly more
formal. It should be also noted that CLDR includes only 'kyllä'/'ei' and no
'joo' or 'on'.

> Colloquially, people say 'oo' rather than 'on'

I haven't yet met such people even I'm a Finn :)

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[Bug localedata/10935] Finnish yes/no option: add “o” for yes

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2010-04-09 02:49 -------
Going with comment #2 I won't change anything.

It is also dangerous to accept too many variants.  If any accidental keypress
can be interpreted as a result you better not have cats running across your
keyboards.

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


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[Bug localedata/10935] Finnish yes/no option: add “o” for yes

[fweimer at redhat dot com]

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Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:

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