Re: New team for Iranian Azerbaijani (az_IR)

["Abbas Izad" <abbasizad hotmail com>]

> Now, if your comment was meant to ask why to favour latin script
> over arabic script; well, the fact is that, either there is a
> translation, and the user will see that translation, and everything
> will be nice and good; or there isn't a translation, in which
> case, the default is to show the compiled in text, which is
> in English and in latin script.

My point about my comments was to open up for a new solution to the problem!
As Roozbeh P. mentioned earlier there are more Azeri speaking in Iran using 
Arabic characters for read/write than Azeris in the republic of Azerbaijan. 
Iranian Azeris has Persian (Farsi) as their second speaking/writing language 
so fallback to Persian comes quite naturally to them!

> So, as when there is *no translation available* the user will be
> shown text in latin script no matter what; then maybe it would
> make more sense to show a rendition in latin script of their language
> rather than English.

Again, we are not discussing about Azeris in the republic of Azerbaijan who 
are comfortable with latin!

> > fa_KU and fa_TU
>
> It is the other way: <language code>_<COUNTRY CODE>.
>
> "KU" and "TU" country codes don't exist.

Sorry, I didn't know what locale Kurdish and Turkman have! However I see a 
problem with Kurdish which has special (Arabic) characters and requires 
special font.

> > In this case the fallback will be fa which will not be a problem för
> > Azeris, kurds and turkmans to read dispite latin az and för untranslated
> > strings will be the english!
>
> Ok, I see your point, you want to create false locale names like
> "fa_AZ" etc. so that the fallback would be "fa"
> (in other words, you want "az_IR:fa" fallback, without the automatic
> libc az_IR->az handling).
>
> It would work; but it would be a gross violation of standard naming
> of locales; I'm strongly opposed to that.

Not if we see (or assume) Azari (with arabic characters) as a flavour of 
Persian, which speaks in the republic of Azerbaijan, like flavours of the 
English, en_US, en_UK, en_CA etc...

well again, it was just a thought ;-)

Rgds
Abbas

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