Bug 2268

Summary:

New locales for South African languages (*_ZA)

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Dwayne Bailey <dwayne>

Component:

* Other

Assignee:

Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

high

CC:

ienup.sung, roland.mainz

Version:

unspecified

Keywords:

l10n

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Adds *_ZA locales to the locale list and XpConfig	none

Description Dwayne Bailey 2005-01-12 01:50:53 UTC

9 of the 11 South African locales are not in the x.org server's locale lists.

1.  Afrikaans (af): minor changes
2.  English (en_ZA): no changes
3.  Siswati (ss): added
4.  Sesotho (st): added
5.  Venda (ve): added
6.  Ndebele, Southern (nr): added
7.  Sepedi/Northrn Sotho (nso): added
8.  Tswana (tn): added
9.  Tsongs (ts): added
10. Xhosa (xh): added
11. Zulu (zu): added

Microsoft locales are known to exist for some of these languages.  However, no
dat could be found to validate such entries and they are therefore not included.

Comment 1 Dwayne Bailey 2005-01-12 02:05:31 UTC

Created attachment 1670 [details] [review]
Adds *_ZA locales to the locale list and XpConfig

Comment 2 Roland Mainz 2005-01-13 20:13:56 UTC

ienup:
Is the patch OK for you ?

Comment 3 Ienup Sung 2005-01-18 12:59:36 UTC

Overall, they look okay to me; I presume Sesotho means South Sotho, Tsongs means
Tsonga, Siswati and Swati are the same?

I'm a bit concerned about the lack of 2-letter code for Northern Sotho and the
use of 3-letter language code but I wasn't able to find that it will cause any
problem at X11 or existing X11 applications. 

Another concern is that in some cases, the default codeset is ISO8859-15 (nso
and tn) or UTF-8 (ve) and yet majority of them is ISO8859-1. Were these intended
and the common practice used in South Africa or should the files have all
codeset entries for all languages?

Comment 4 Dwayne Bailey 2005-01-18 22:43:12 UTC

> I presume Sesotho means South Sotho, Tsongs means Tsonga, Siswati 
> and Swati are the same?

Sesotho => Southern Sotho
Tsongs => Tsonga - sorry misspelling on the bug report patch is OK
Siswati => Swati

> I'm a bit concerned about the lack of 2-letter code for Northern Sotho 
> and the use of 3-letter language code but I wasn't able to find that 
> it will cause any problem at X11 or existing X11 applications. 

I have also been unable to validate this.

> Another concern is that in some cases, the default codeset is 
> ISO8859-15 (nso and tn) or UTF-8 (ve) and yet majority of them is 
> ISO8859-1. Were these intended and the common practice used in 
> South Africa or should the files have all codeset entries for all languages?

NSO and TN required at a minimum -15 as they both us 's caron' which is not
present in -1. -15 was chosen as the languages both otherwise use common latin
characters except only for the 's caron' and thus this charset was the closest to -1

VE uses a number of characters 'n dot', 'n tilde' etc. According to
http://www.eki.ee/letter/ these are not in any common character set except
Unicode thus we selected UTF-8.

Therefore for NSO, TN and VE iso-8859-1 will not work. And for VE -15 will not work.

Comment 5 Ienup Sung 2005-01-19 09:54:40 UTC

Thanks very much for your explanation. I don't have any objection and the patch
looks good to me.

Comment 6 Dwayne Bailey 2005-02-09 01:39:05 UTC

Could someone please tell me when this patch is likely to be committed?  I've
got a few that I'm monitoring and I'm trying to get the simple and obvious ones
out of the way and this is one of them.

Comment 7 Daniel Stone 2005-09-30 00:40:08 UTC

committed to HEAD, thanks for the patch

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