Re: be-tarask

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>]

24.02.2020 16:18 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2/24/20 10:02 AM, Zmicer Turok wrote:
> > Hi, tell me please, is it possible to add a locale be-tarask for
> > Belarusian?
> 
> Locales can certainly be added if people are willing to do the work to add
> them.
> 
> Can you please explain what be-tarask would represent?

be-tarask is an alternative (classical, old) spelling of Belarusian language
using the Cyrillic script (same as be_BY). [1]

> We currently have be_BY and be_BY@latin (latin script version).

The bug report and the discussion is here: [2]

Last time I asked a native speaker I was told that less and less people use
that spelling so it is not worth adding.  Has anything changed recently?
 Are
there people willing to use it?

Another obstacle is that the variant is not supported by CLDR.  Also I'm
not sure if Taraškievica is supported by any official and/or scientific
institution.  It may be difficult to verify the correctness of the data.
However, if we overcome these difficulties adding be_BY@tarask is possible.

Regards,

Rafal


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara%C5%A1kievica
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1015