Re: Wonder if Matupi in Daai ???

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:01:23PM +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> ons 2003-07-09 klockan 11.54 skrev russell kyaw:
> > I got the message you sent. Following the Websites you mentioned I
> > found out that Matupi is included as a region under Chin, Daai
> > (together with Paletwa, Kanpetiet townships) as a language of Myanmar
> > . Then I get confused on these. Actually Matupi is a township of Chin
> > State. But it has it owns language and dialects different from others.
> > In my understanding what we called Daai is a bit different from the
> > language spoken in Matupi township, is it not possible for matupi to
> > include as a language? I expect for your suggestion and feedback what
> > I should do next and which should I follow for my translation.
> 
> It's unfortunate that Matupi doesn't have its own ISO-639-1 or ISO-639-2
> language code, since we pretty much use those everywhere, both in GNOME
> for translations but also in locale naming in general. But I guess we
> could use "sit@Matupi" for now.
> 
> The ideal thing would of course be if Matupi could be officially
> assigned an ISO 639 language code of its own. If you have the
> possibility to do such a request, you can have a look at what's required
> on http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ and follow the instructions.
> Otherwise, we'll just use sit@Matupi for now.
> 
> The other thing is with glibc locale definitions -- I don't know if a
> working locale definition in glibc is required for things to work. Keld
> knows about all these issues, perhaps he can help. Keld?

The glibc locale is use in a number of places in Gnome, AFAIK.
So it would be a bonus if there was a locale for the language. 
If not, I believe default values would be taken from the POSIX or C
locale.

beste regards
keld