Onyeibo highlights an important issue which I'm sure might never have occurred to many of us, whether in the context of LO or anything else. There are many countries around the world where the "nation" does not define the lowest level of cultural or linguistic sub-division. Even in Europe there is Switzerland as an example.
Perhaps everyone contributing to LO should be asked to consider their own country/region to see if there are similar local issues which LO could address better. Nige ________________________________ From: Onyeibo Oku <[email protected]> Sent: 22 February 2019 01:37 To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] The Default Currency for Nigeria is divisive Good morning everyone, Recently, I tried to configure locale and Currency settings in Libreoffice 6.2 to reflect my nationality. I ended up with mixed- feelings. I was happy to see that the developers/designers considered Nigeria. However, the currency tag or short-description there presented only one tribe in the multilingual country. Nigerians are sensitive to issues suggesting that one tribe has national privileges over the rest. Which is why an entry (currency) bearing "NGN <currency-symbol> Hausa (Nigeria)" is bad marketing for Nigeria. Nigeria has three major tribes (with associated languages) namely: Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. To avoid conflict between these tribes (and others), vendors tend to present their product messages using the national Language (English). Otherwise, all major languages will be represented. I suggest that the LibreOffice team should consider replacing the word "Hausa" on that entry with "English" or provide entries for other tribes as well. This issue bothers on the Currency symbol and its associated tag and not about Language settings. I hope my observation is not convoluted Regards Onyeibo -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libreoffice.org%2Fget-help%2Fmailing-lists%2Fhow-to-unsubscribe%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1f4358b6273417bdbd908d698717c27%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636864010507615905&sdata=lpCnjFF9ArJoENUR1JDXYooyGAByNzDnQobq9tfX1hE%3D&reserved=0 Posting guidelines + more: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.documentfoundation.org%2FNetiquette&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1f4358b6273417bdbd908d698717c27%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636864010507628886&sdata=LIGvPArHm4dGrb%2FNPzq9urLZKdVg4hmb%2BPLrYpXWJrY%3D&reserved=0 List archive: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistarchives.libreoffice.org%2Fglobal%2Fmarketing%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1f4358b6273417bdbd908d698717c27%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636864010507628886&sdata=2MqO44ZI5iWgv1EHQMH0ZeWJyWqrBbtJv9ZsH143iLk%3D&reserved=0 Privacy Policy: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.documentfoundation.org%2Fprivacy&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1f4358b6273417bdbd908d698717c27%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636864010507628886&sdata=X5m0e1DoBDZ3dTEkwfPV0kRbQcMzh1iU8RbQi2wTk7c%3D&reserved=0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
