From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 02:32:01 EDT
--- Joaquín Cuenca Abela <cuenca@pacaterie.u-psud.fr>
wrote:
> A more convoluted case will be Spanish. In Spain
> everybody uses "ordenador" (just guess who give us
> that idea... :), but in latin america everybody
> uses "computadora" (or "computador", it changes with
> the exact country).
Do we prefer the evil anglicism or the evil galicism
(:
This is an illustration of the need for regional
support in proofing tools which we already have though
there are plenty of dictionaries missing.
> And the example that Jordi used, "tamany" instead of
> "mida"... well, after several years studying catalan
> (in the south valencia zone), I've never heard
> before of "mida". I've always heard "tamany", so
> maybe that's another example that changes with the
> region, and here we have a problem, because AFAIK
> the user can not specify ca-VA or ca-CA, but just
> ca-ES. (I can also be blatantly wrong here, as I
Please see this bug report:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3227
Need to extend language tags
Add some comments there so we can know in which
directions to improve the system if needed.
Andrew.
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