From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 23:51:29 EDT
--- Raphael Finkel <raphael@cs.uky.edu> wrote:
> Yiddish is a language without a country. One could
> suggest Israel as a possibility, but the politics of
> the matter are that Israel government policy has
> done its best to suppress Yiddish in favor of
> Hebrew.
> I used yi-YI to indicate the YIVO orthography of
> Yiddish; there are several competing spelling
> systems, but YIVO has the widest acceptance. The
> spelling checker code (in
> other/spell/xp/ispell_checker.h) expects
> "yiddish-yivo.hash", and I was trying to be
> consistent. I am certainly willing to standardize
> to whatever seems best.
This is exactly the kind of problem I was thinking of
when I created this bug:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3227
Need to extend language tags
Could you please add some comments there on what you
think might work best. I think we will need richer
language tags for AbiWord which inherit from the
system, can have extra info such as orthography added
in the profile which will be used in the .abw file
format but will be converted down for import/export to
other formats.
For now I think just plain "yi" is best and we need to
think deeply for the long-term solution.
(A quick search for Unix Yiddish locales only finds
"yi" by the way).
> In any case, yi-YI can't be the source of my
> problem.
Exactly.
> The code in
> src/wp/ap/unix/ap_UnixPrefs.cpp strips off the -YI.
> However, at line 104 it
> finds lc_ctype is "C" and chooses the default
> "en_US". I have to figure out
> why lc_ctype is "C".
Keep me informed if you find something...
Andrew.
> Raphael
>
> > from F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>,
> Sep 24, Re: internationalization: I ca
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > > The first problem I see is "yi-YI". The letters
> to
> >
> > I thought we'd settled on yi-IL for Yiddish?
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