Bug 19853

Summary:	Kurdish orthography is based on Cyrillic
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh>
Component:	orth	Assignee:	Keith Packard <keithp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	freedesktop
Version:	2.6
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Roozbeh Pournader 2009-01-31 01:57:31 UTC

The Kurdish orthography file uses Cyrillic, which is not in modern use, except perhaps by a very small and scattered communities in Armenia, Georgia, and Republic of Azerbaijan.

Presently, speakers live in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Those in Iran and Iraq use Arabic, while those in Turkey use Latin. I'm not sure about Syria.

I think ku.orth should be removed (or renamed to ku_am.orth, ku_cyrillic.orth or something like that), and ku_iq.orth should be created, "include"ing ku_ir.orth.

Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2009-02-03 13:45:57 UTC

In my tree:

commit db87c07e38634ba41129a8fbfd7614af1f4e9cbb
Author: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 1 20:29:12 2009 -0800

    Rename "ku" to "ku_am", add "ku_iq" (bug #19853).
    
    For Iraq, we are assuming its the same Arabic orthography used in Iran.
    
    According to Ethnologue, Kurdish is written in Cyrillic in Armenia:
    http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kmr
    
    Turkey and Syria need more research.

Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2009-06-24 12:35:49 UTC

I believe I've fixed this in 2.7.0.  Please reopen otherwise.

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