Re: linux mint

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Gunnar Hjalmarsson:

> On 2020-07-15 22:34, Halena Kawal via Libc-locales wrote:
>> My job is to translate the interface of the system from English to
>> Belarussian (taraskievitsa).
>> Nowadays, "Linux Mint" has "be" and "be-latin" locales, but I do not
>> use any of these variations.
>> Please, could You add new locale "be-tarask" to the list of
>> available languages?
>
> Asking the same question as I did when this request was made at Ubuntu:
>
> I can't help wondering about the reason why you would need it. There
> are already translations of Linux software into Belarusian, and the
> be_BY.UTF-8 locale is present.
>
> Are you thinking of establishing a second Belarusian translation
> variant of Linux software using the Taraškievica orthography? If so,
> have you considered which huge undertaking that would be? Are there
> enough Belarusian (Taraškievica) translators available for such a
> project?
>
> Not saying it can't be done; just advising you to think twice.

Note that there have been previous discussions on this topic:

  <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-locales/2020q1/006998.html>
  <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-locales/2020q2/007024.html>

I don't think anything has changed since then.

Thanks,
Florian