Re: Pashto/Kashmiri locale

["Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu randomink org>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since 2.23 GNOME started supporting ps and ks locale but so far there
> is no core support for them in glibc.
>
> What libc implementations support these locales?
>
> Are you aware if localization teams put any effort in providing equal
> support in glibc?
>
> I'm asking as we have very strict dependency tracking in PLD Linux so
> we have to either remove ks and ps from all the GNOME packages or
> patch glibc to support them (and thus provide a directory for them).
> So far I was ignoring this issue but there is little time before 2.24
> gets released and we'd like to make sure we can provide the best
> experience to our users by then :)
>
> Sorry if sending this to the desktop-devel-list was an utterly wrong
> idea but it seems to involve the whole suite :)
>

Hi,
There seems to be data for Pashto (ps) in
http://unicode.org/cldr/data/common/posix/
There's none for Kashmiri.
I guess the gnome-i18n list is better for discussing this.

More infor on glibc locales at
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/guide/locales/glibc
Thanks,
Sayamindu



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