Fwd: Re: be-tarask

[Zmicer Turok <nashtlumach@gmail.com>]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Zmicer Turok <nashtlumach@gmail.com>
Sent: 25 лютага 2020 08.07.01 GMT+03:00
To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>, libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: be-tarask

Taraškievica is not supported by any official and/or scientific
institution, but there are philologists and writers who use this spelling. There are much more, the weight of those who use be-latn. There are as many users. Approximate activity can be viewed in the Wikipedia. The layout is no different from "be", there are necessary chars. Sense to add a locale exists.

On 24 лютага 2020 23.36.20 GMT+03:00, Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
>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