From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7629 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2012 12:37:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 4599 invoked by uid 48); 11 Dec 2012 12:37:17 -0000 From: "michael.moroni at mailoo dot org" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug localedata/14943] New: Artificial languages Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:37:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: new X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: michael.moroni at mailoo dot org X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 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: 2012-12/txt/msg00104.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14943 Bug #: 14943 Summary: Artificial languages Product: glibc Version: unspecified Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: localedata AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org ReportedBy: michael.moroni@mailoo.org CC: libc-locales@sources.redhat.com Classification: Unclassified Dear Ulrich Dreeper, Dearest developers, The time has come to start discussing seriously about supporting artificial languages, such as Esperanto. Dreeper, during the last years, closed some related bugs as WONTFIX not only without giving any reason[1][2][3][4] but also *insulting* people speaking artificial languages[5]. I'm telling you to seriously discuss about it without creating any walls. I hope that you reconsider the fact that artificial languages do exist and they are not useless (see Wikipedia page for Esperanto[6]). I think that it is too silly not to add support for such languages because they are used actively and they are not simply "forks" of other languages Debian[7] and Mandrake (Mandriva)[8] support eo_EO locale by default, Arch Linux does support eo locale through AUR[9] and I don't know about Ubuntu. What about fixing this problem by default inserting a patch upstream? In my opinion it should be the most reasonable option to choice. I hope you read this bug report and make the most intelligent choice. I'm looking forward to receiving your answer, - MM [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2135#c3 [2] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2135#c9 [3] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=711#c2 [4] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13190#c2 [5] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112#c8 [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_language [7] http://filewatcher.com/p/libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.8_mips.deb.3020726/usr/share/doc/libc6-dev/changelog.Debian.gz.html glibc (2.1.1-2) [8] http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//Linux/distributions/Mandrake/2005/x86_64/media/media_info/compss [9] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/esperanto-locale/ -- Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.