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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 8 06:04:21 -0700 2005 ------- It seems that there is no LCID (decimal) for Southern Sotho. I have just found the following document (you may have found it :) ): http://www.sil.org/silewp/2000/001/SILEWP2000-001.html I quote two paragraphs: ----- For each category in ISO 639 part 1, the two-letter codes, there is supposed to be a corresponding three-letter code in ISO 639-2. But different operational definitions appear to have been used in the two parts of the standard, with the effect that the three-letter codes are more finely grained. So, for example, there is a single two-letter code st for "Sesotho". Yet this category is covered in ISO 639-2 by two distinct categories, nso "Sotho, Northern" and sot "Sotho, Southern". There is currently nothing to indicate to users whether the two-letter code is to be equated with specifically one or the other of the three-letter codes, or whether it is to be understood as the union of the two. ----- Similar problems arise for Win 32 LANGIDs. For example, it is unclear what 0x0430 "Sutu" is intended to denote. The Ethnologue identifies "Sutu" as an alternate name for a Bantu language known as "Ngoni" that is spoken in Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique by a combined population of nearly 1,000,000. "Sutu" is also close to "Sotho," used for two other Bantu languages from a different branch of the family: "Northern Sotho," spoken in South Africa and Botswana by some 4,000,000 speakers, and "Southern Sotho," which is spoken in South Africa by over 4,000,000 speakers. Furthermore, the Ethnologue indicates that the latter is alternately known as "Suto" or "Suthu." Although the name used by Microsoft, "Sutu," exactly matches one of the names for the language also known as "Ngoni" and does not exactly match any of the names for "Northern" or "Southern Sotho," an examination of the facts suggests that it is most likely intended to refer to the combination of "Northern" and "Southern Sotho," which have a combined population of over 8,000,000. There is no way to be certain of this, however, since Microsoft does not provide any clues to the intended identity. ----- . --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
