[Bug localedata/2135] New: Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[Bug localedata/2135] New: Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy]

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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy]

------- Additional Comments From eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy  2006-01-10 14:06 -------
Created an attachment (id=823)
 --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=823&action=view)
Esperanto (Uruguay) locale


-- 


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy]

------- Additional Comments From eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy  2006-02-21 14:11 -------
Created an attachment (id=874)
 --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=874&action=view)
Esperanto (Uruguay) locale revised

Added missing bits for Uruguay

-- 
           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Attachment #823 is|0                           |1
           obsolete|                            |


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2006-04-24 06:45 -------
No locales for artificial languages will ever be added.

-- 
           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eggert at gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From eggert at gnu dot org  2006-05-07 04:16 -------
There are several considerations here.  If there are ISO standard
language codes and user communities who maintain the translations,
then there is no reason not to take a language no matter how few
people really use it.  For locales, if there is an ISO code and a
recognized standard specifying the details, there is no reason not to
take them.  There is already a backlog of locales for languages spoken
by children that warrant examination, at a higher priority than
locales for languages spoken only by adults.  We should get a
regularized and streamlined procedure for dealing with locale stuff.

We plan to judge requests for new locales like any other features that
users ask for: by how many users would like them and how pressing
their needs are, by who offers to do the work, and by the practical
problems of having the GNU C library support the features.  For now,
it seems to be a good idea to let Debian and Mandrake's glibc ports
experiment with this particular request and see how well it works in
practice.  We can revisit the suggestion later for glibc itself.

-- 


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy]

------- Additional Comments From eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy  2006-05-24 14:58 -------
Mandrake has had an esperanto locale (eo_XX) for at least six years and Debian
(eo_EO) for seven years.  Do you really think that there is a need for further
experimentation?

On the other hand we've been trying to add the locale to glibc since 2001 if I
remember correctly.

While I'm glad to hear that the request for an esperanto locale will be judged
like the requests for any other locale, I think the glibc team has by now enough
information and external testing.  If that's not the case, please don't hesitate
to ask.

-- 
           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy]

------- Additional Comments From eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy  2006-05-24 15:22 -------
Subject: Re:  Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

While I understand your comments[1], I think that it's not appropiate to leave the bug closed as WONTFIX stating that sometime in the future you will take care of it.

Debian has had an esperanto locale (eo_EO) for at least seven years and it simply works (for example, the Debian webpages are built using it).  There is nothing technically weird about this locale.  Do you feel there is a need for further experience?

We've been asking for many years (from 2001 at least) to add an esperanto locale to glibc.  We've tried everything, from simple "eo" to "eo_XX" and now "eo_country code".

What do you suggest we have to do to have glibc accept an esperanto locale in one of the proposed forms? (eo_XX, eo_FR, eo_UY).  We understand that eo_EO is wrong and that eo_XX might be not acceptable to you because XX is private, although it is the preferred form.  But what about eo_UY?

Thanks, Eduardo.

PD: Since you brought it up I have to add that there are native speakers, so the language is spoken by adults and children.

[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2135#c4


-- 


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eggert at gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From eggert at gnu dot org  2006-05-25 07:13 -------
I stand corrected; there are a very few native speakers of Esperanto.  But this
doesn't affect the main point, which is that the most important problem here is
coming up with a streamlined and regularized procedure for working through the
locale backlog for glibc.  We'd like to get this working so that we can handle
requests like this better in the future.  It would be an inefficient use of our
limited resources to review requests for eo_UY, eo_US, eo_GG, eo_XX, etc.,
without having a reasonable procedure in place.

-- 


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.

Re: [Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[Eduardo Trápani]

Hello,

I've just seen the new Kashubian locale for Poland added without any hassle whatsoever, even with help from the people who do the checkins, in little more than a week[1].

Am I to assume you finally found a way to streamline the addition of new locales?

Friendly, Eduardo.

PS: I have nothing against the insertion of Kasubian, but check some facts[2], I really don't understand your policy, unless it's changed for the good and we are next ...

Population  	3,000 in Poland.
Language use  	The Slovincian dialect is extinct. Few children speakers of Kashubian Proper.

[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2961
[2] http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=csb

> ------- Additional Comments From eggert at gnu dot org  2006-05-25 07:13 -------
> I stand corrected; there are a very few native speakers of Esperanto.  But this
> doesn't affect the main point, which is that the most important problem here is
> coming up with a streamlined and regularized procedure for working through the
> locale backlog for glibc.  We'd like to get this working so that we can handle
> requests like this better in the future.  It would be an inefficient use of our
> limited resources to review requests for eo_UY, eo_US, eo_GG, eo_XX, etc.,
> without having a reasonable procedure in place.
> 

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy]

------- Additional Comments From eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy  2006-08-03 18:24 -------
Subject: Re:  Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

Hello,

I've just seen the new Kashubian locale for Poland added without any hassle whatsoever, even with help from the people who do the checkins, in little more than a week[1].

Am I to assume you finally found a way to streamline the addition of new locales?

Friendly, Eduardo.

PS: I have nothing against the insertion of Kasubian, but check some facts[2], I really don't understand your policy, unless it's changed for the good and we are next ...

Population  	3,000 in Poland.
Language use  	The Slovincian dialect is extinct. Few children speakers of Kashubian Proper.

[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2961
[2] http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=csb

> ------- Additional Comments From eggert at gnu dot org  2006-05-25 07:13 -------
> I stand corrected; there are a very few native speakers of Esperanto.  But this
> doesn't affect the main point, which is that the most important problem here is
> coming up with a streamlined and regularized procedure for working through the
> locale backlog for glibc.  We'd like to get this working so that we can handle
> requests like this better in the future.  It would be an inefficient use of our
> limited resources to review requests for eo_UY, eo_US, eo_GG, eo_XX, etc.,
> without having a reasonable procedure in place.
> 



-- 


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2006-08-03 18:42 -------
There will not be any support for any artificial language.  Period.

-- 
           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy]

------- Additional Comments From eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy  2006-08-03 20:43 -------
Subject: Re:  Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

> There will not be any support for any artificial language.  Period.

Read comment #4 and #5.  You are saying that what Paul Eggert said should not be taken into account in any way?


-- 


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[ostrowski dot michal at gmail dot com]

------- Additional Comments From ostrowski dot michal at gmail dot com  2006-08-06 19:58 -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> Subject: Re:  Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

I think this data:
> Population  	3,000 in Poland.
is obsolete. Census from 2002 in Poland shows that more than 50,000 people use 
Kashubian as a first (native) language at home, so there are more than 3,000 
people in Poland who make the Kashubian population. On that Ethnologue page 
there is also other information, which you forgot to paste: Ethnic population: 
100,000 or more.

Well, this discussion is not about Kashubian language, I just wanted to correct 
this information which Eduardo wrote.

Cheers, Michal

-- 


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy]

------- Additional Comments From eduardo at esperanto dot org dot uy  2006-08-06 20:29 -------
Subject: Re:  Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

Thanks for the correction.  My comment wasn't aimed at the Kashubian 
language, as you well noted, but at the (lack of public and official) 
policies to add new locales.


-- 


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[egmont at uhulinux dot hu]

------- Additional Comments From egmont at uhulinux dot hu  2007-03-13 14:20 -------
It seems to me that while LANG and LC_* may only contain valid locale names 
(since these variables are involved in the setlocale() call that handles 
structures representing existing locales), the variable LANGUAGE which I guess 
is only involved in gettext may take arbitrary value. So for example even if 
there's no esperanto locale on your system, this setup seems to be perfectly 
valid and working for me:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=eo
and then translations are primary taken from the "<localedir>/eo" directory. 
LANGUAGE can even take more language codes separated by ':', e.g. 
LANGUAGE=eo:de to fall back to German for each string where esperanto 
translation is not available.

This means that you can translate your application to Esperanto even if there's 
no such locale. What is still missing is the stuff coming from the locale 
database: month and weekday names, first day of week in calendar, localized 
date format, decimal separator and grouping character, yes/no regexp, collation 
etc...


-- 


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.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2135

Jackie Rosen <jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com

--- Comment #14 from Jackie Rosen <jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com> ---
*** Bug 260998 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Seen from the domain http://volichat.com
Page where seen: http://volichat.com/adult-chat-rooms
Marked for reference. Resolved as fixed @bugzilla.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[schwab at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2135

Andreas Schwab <schwab at sourceware dot org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|jackie.rosen at hushmail dot com   |

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.

[Bug localedata/2135] Please add esperanto locale (eo_UY)

[fweimer at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2135

Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |fweimer at redhat dot com
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |DUPLICATE
              Flags|                            |security-

--- Comment #15 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16190 ***

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.