Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:58:58 +0200 From: "J. Vicente Carrasco -Bixen- " <carvay@tikismikis.org> To: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> Cc: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CLDR import for src/share/*def definitions Message-ID: <4A524972.90401@tikismikis.org> In-Reply-To: <20090706185251.GA19825@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <20090701223726.GA36335@mavetju.org> <20090706180055.GA18458@lyxys.ka.sub.org> <4A5245A7.2020204@tikismikis.org> <20090706185251.GA19825@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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Wolfgang Zenker(e)k dio:
> Hi,
>
> * J. Vicente Carrasco -Bixen- <carvay@tikismikis.org>[090706 20:42]:
>> Wolfgang Zenker(e)k dio:
>>> * Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> [090702 00:37]:
>>>> I have been playing with the CLDR database to see if I can get the
>>>> monetary, time, messages and numerical definitions right. The CLDR
>>>> is in UTF-8, I use iconv to translate to other charactersets.
>
>>>> So far most of it is fine, except (subset of issues):
>
>>>> - A couple of languages are not known (es_FR, es_IT)
>
>>> what do you mean by "not known"? Both locales specify a spanish language
>>> locale, one for use in France and one in Italy. There might even be no
>>> different language contructs from es_ES, just different ways to format
>>> dates ore something like that.
>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but as a Spanish native speaker I can't
>> understand why we (the Spanish-speaking community) could need locales as
>> es_FR or es_IT or even why would be necessary for the French and Italian
>> speaking world. Is something like en_ES, no_IT or de_RU. Why the heck is
>> that? ;-)
>
> as I understand it, that would be locales for use by spanish speaking
> communities living in France and Italy, respectively. So someone who
> uses one of these locales gets e.g. system messages in spanish but
> dates formatted according to the customs in France or something like
> that.
>
Spanish speaking communities living in France and Italy... and using
FreeBSD. Suddendly my pet project of Basque localization (eu_ES and
maybe eu_FR) sounds more and more interesting ;-)
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Current Basque Beret: Spanish FDP Translationmeister
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