Re: New team for Mon (mnw)

[Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>]

Hi Sumit,

Replies in-line:

El dv 27 de 07 de 2012 a les 18:19 -0700, en/na Mon Locale va escriure:
> Hi Gil,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. 

You are welcome! We, at GNOME Translation Project are always thrilled to
see new translation teams trying to start translating GNOME. Thanks a
lot for thinking about doing that!

> I've followed both links you've provided. Obviously, I'm so new with
> GNOME, especially to this geek world. I'm not sure if MNW is the
> locale for Mon language. I've gone through
> [http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=tree;f=localedata/locales;hb=HEAD] and couldn't locate a locale for Mon language. I need your help for this.

If it's not there, it means that no one has made it, so let's make it ;)

I suppose that you will want to create at least mnw_MM (so Mon in Burma)
and an aliases for to that one for mnw_TH (so Mon in Thailand). Is that
right (I picked the countries from Wikipedia, so maybe there are more
countries where Mon is also spoken).

To fill all the data, please, ask on the gnome-i18n mailing list and
already open a bug for it requesting the locale to be added:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/

Look at the links on Claude's tool to create locales too:
http://lh.2xlibre.net/

> Again, thank you on behalf of 10 million Mon people around the world.
> Let's something great!

Again, you are welcome, we are here to try to help you and make GNOME
available on as many languages as possible!

Cheers,

> Sincerely yours,
> Sumit
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Gil Forcada <gforcada gnome org>
> wrote:
>         El dv 27 de 07 de 2012 a les 12:31 +0700, en/na Mon Locale va
>         escriure:
>         > Dear Translation Project Manager,
>         >
>         > I am Sumit Punnakari, would like to start a new translation
>         team for
>         > Mon language (ISO-639-3: mnw).
>         
>         
>         Welcome to GNOME Translation Project! It's a joy to see new
>         languages
>         coming to GNOME!!
>         
>         > I've already checked in the Damned Lies, and there is no Mon
>         in there.
>         
>         
>         You are right, so let's fix that! ;)
>         
>         > I recently participated in Mon Localization Team, based in
>         Thailand.
>         > We have 37 members in the team, all Mon speakers. We hope to
>         be able
>         > to translate Gnome as well as all other Open Source related
>         documents.
>         > Please accept this application. Thank you!
>         
>         
>         Wow! That's amazing! 37!? Great!
>         
>         You should read this document on GNOME's wiki:
>         https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/StartingATeam
>         
>         And maybe, does it have a glibc locale already Mon?, you
>         should also
>         read  this:
>         https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/NewLanguage
>         
>         Let us know if you find any blocker on your road, we, the
>         Translation
>         Team, are more than happy to help you on any problem you have.
>         
>         Welcome to GNOME!
>         
>         > Yours,
>         > Sumit

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