From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15999 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2006 14:05:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 15965 invoked by uid 48); 10 Jan 2006 14:05:35 -0000 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:05:00 -0000 From: "eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy" To: libc-locales@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20060110140534.2135.eduardo@esperanto.org.uy> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/2135] New: Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY) X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 An esperanto locale is already included with Debian and Mandrake. According to Ethnologue (www.ethnologue.com) Esperanto has around 2,000,000 second-language speakers in 115 countries. Compare with other minority languages, like basque eu_ES (580.000) or Breton br_FR (500000). I hope the maintainers don't engage in a linguistic discussion about language categories (that does not belong here) and acknowledge the simple fact that lots of their users actually patch the system in order to have this locale and would like to have included. In certain contexts, not having the locale for esperanto means that no localization is possible. Why would you intentionally hinder those projects? That has nothing to do with glibc goals, does it? In case you don't know, the UN system through UNESCO has passed favorable resolutions on Esperanto. UNESCO also has called for language diversity in the Information Society. I find it hard to believe that you can simply reject the requests to add the locale. [1] http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/dec_res.html (look for esperanto) -- Summary: Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY) Product: glibc Version: unspecified Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: localedata AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com ReportedBy: eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2135 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.