From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20355 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2010 13:15:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 20347 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Nov 2010 13:15:54 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO sourceware.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:15:52 +0000 From: "ihar.hrachyshka at gmail dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug localedata/1015] There is a need for an alternative belarusian locale X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: ihar.hrachyshka at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: ASSIGNED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: libc-locales at sources dot redhat.com X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:15:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1015 --- Comment #22 from booxter 2010-11-06 = 13:15:25 UTC --- Ok, let me show you that this language variant is quite strong to have its = own locale. 1. There are 2 (two) Belarusian Wikipedias: be.wikipedia.org (IANA: be_BY-1959acad, be_BY in glibc) and be-x-old.wikipedia.org (IANA: be_BY-tar= ask) with quite similar articles count: 24914 (be) vs. 29004 (be-x-old). 2. As for localisation, we have different open- and closed-source software having either one or another language variant translations. F.e. OpenOffice, Mozilla Suite, Firefox, Thunderbird, KDE work with academic language variant (be_BY-1959acad) though GNOME, Gimp, Xfce4 have tarashkevitsa (be_BY-tarask) translation (the latter was forced to use be_BY locale till now because the= re is no proper place for their contributions). Mediawiki and some other softw= are packages have both language versions translation. 3. As for real life, Belarusian Academy of Science, schools, state publishe= rs and media work in -1959acad version. Though some other popular media work in alternative, -tarask version (mainly: Radio Liberty for Belarus, Radio Racy= ja, ARCHE, some private publishers). I don't know about any official statistics on the percentage of usage of ea= ch of the variants but I think every Belarusian language user will support that this percentage can vary (80/20 to 20/80 percentage in different spheres wi= th total stats of about 75/25 for -1959acad and -tarask respectively). You can read a bit more on the roots of two language norm variants existance on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara=C5=A1kievica So this is not the case of "fringe variations plaguing glibc locale databas= e." :) --=20 Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=3Demail ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.