linux mint

linux mint

[Halena Kawal]

Have a nice life, dear contributors of "libc-locales" project.
My name is Halena.
My native country is Belarus.
I am user of "Linux Mint" OS.
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?
Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards,
Halena

Re: linux mint

[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.

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj

Re: linux mint

[Florian Weimer]

* 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