Re: Kurdish locale

[Erdal Ronahi]

Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Erdal Ronahi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
 

Hi,
I am working on several localization projects for the Kurdish language 
for Windows and Linux. Debian does not yet seem to have the locale 
information for Kurdish, while Mandrake has.
   


Indeed, there is a Kurdish locale in the alternative locales package
from Denis Barbier : belocs-locales-data.
 

Ok, I found the package and installed it. I was even able to use the 
Kurdish locale with it, so it seems it works fine with Ubuntu. Yeah!

This Kurdish locale should indeed be submitted to the locales package,
I guess. Erdal, would you care reviewing it? I may send it to you if
you want and compare it with the Mandrake one.
 

Yes, I would like to review it. I am not familiar to the terminology you 
use, though. What does it meant that Debian maintainers are "blocked"? 
What can I do to get the locale into Debian or other Debian-based 
distributions?

Is the package that Denis prepared useable? I am working on Ubuntu 5.10. 
Our group has just finished translating AbiWord into Kurdish, but I 
can't use it because there is no Kurdish locale.

Moreover, I suppose that *other* Kurdish locales should be written for
other countries such as Syria, Irak and (IIRC) Iran. Otherwise, having
only a Kurdish/Turkey locale would rapidly lead to political disputes
(anyway, I guess that political disputes are always close with that
matter).
 

Certainly other locales would be useful, too.  Unfortunately no "real" 
standards exist whatsoever, so we may face some difficulties. 
Furthermore, I am not able to provide all the arabic script stuff that 
would be necessary for Iraq and Iran.

What is essential to the Kurdish community, an important part of which 
is abroad, is the LANGUAGE specifications in the locale like alphabet, 
collation, keyboard layouts and things like this. Country specific 
things like currency unit, telephone and ISBN number are of less 
importance, so a ku_TR locale would be useful for Kurds in several 
countries and abroad.

Thanks,
Erdal
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