Hi Eike

Moyogo is Denis Moyogo Jacquerye.
We are both at ln.wikipedia and at "Informatique et langues des deux 
Congo"-group.

Good Night
Etienne Ruedin

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Datum: 19 Apr 2007 19:25:07 -0000
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Betreff: [Issue 76153] Locale/charset file for Lingala (ln_CD)

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> ------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 19 19:25:07
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> Hi moyogo,
> 
> > I'll send the JCA form asap.
> 
> Good. Btw, what is your full name, so I can look it up in the list of
> approved assignments?
> 
> > 1. The ThousandSeparator is ' ' non-breaking space. Thanks for noticing
> the
> > empty one.
> 
> The format codes have to be adapted to use it. I'll do that.
> 
> > 2. The ListSeparator is  ' ; '.
> 
> The separator should be one character only, I'll remove the surrounding
> blanks.
> 
> > 3. I set the negative currency form to
> >    <FormatCode>[CURRENCY] # ##0,00;[RED]-[CURRENCY] #
> ##0,00</FormatCode>
> 
> Also the codes not having [RED] negatives probably should be adapted,
> I'll do.
> 
> > 4. The CurrencySymbol is now "F", althought "Fc" is often encountered.
> 
> Which means that also the LC_FORMAT replaceTo attribute should use 'F',
> will do. Btw, I assigned the MS-LangID 0x0639 to ln-CD, so it reads now
> replaceTo="[$F-639]".
> 
> > 5. The IndexKey is now A-E Ɛ F-O Ɔ P-Z
> 
> Fine.
> 
> 
> > Regarding the collation :
> > 
> > the alphabetical order is the most common one I have encountered. 
> > The morphological order (ln_morph) is recommended by some linguists so
> it should
> > be available.
> > But I think the alphabetical order (ln_charset) should be the default, 
> > unless there’s an official order that is set by decree or such, which
> hasn’t
> > happened.
> 
> Since we don't have a "Morphological" collation algorithm yet, not even
> in the user interface, would that be a proper name? The alphabetical
> order usually is called "Alphanumeric". Note that most languages don't
> use a "Character Set" order, but have alphanumeric instead.
> 
> The morphological order also resembles somewhat that of the hu_HU locale
> where a "charset" collation is used. As I'm absolutely not familiar with
> Lingala, could the alphabetical order be called "Alphanumeric" (and the
> collation data file be named ln_alphanumeric.txt) and the morpholigical
> order be called "Character Set" (and the file be named ln_charset.txt)
> instead? That way we wouldn't need an additional algorithm name and UI
> entry.
> 
> The IndexKey element then should follow whatever we decide here and we
> may as well need two elements.
> 
> I noticed the percent format codes have a blank between digits and the
> % character. This is usually not the case and the percent character
> immediately follows the number, like in 0% . Intended?
> 
> Btw, the Locale element had the attribute allowUpdateFromCLDR="yes",
> which should only be set if normative locale data is available in the
> CLDR and the locale data may be updated semi-automatically. As we didn't
> do a comparison yet I defined that to "no".
> 
>   Eike
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