Hi Danilo,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 21:22:39 +0200, Danilo ??egan wrote:

> http://l10n.openoffice.org/i18n_framework/cldr/LocaleDataAudit_OOo_CLDR.html,
> starting with issue number 1188 up to 1227, CLDR is correct. 
> 
> As for issues 1186 and 1187 (am/pm identifiers), they are not used in
> Serbia and Montenegro at all.

But we do have number formats that use 12 hour formats, which may also
get imported if you open a document that uses them in a system locale,
and if displayed in your locale there should be some distinction
possible, even if your language/region normally doesn't use them.

> Also, sr-YU should be renamed to sr-CS, since country code for Serbia
> and Montenegro has changed to CS from YU along with the name change
> from Yugoslavia in February 2003 (code change has been done in ISO
> 3166 in July 2003).

Which was rather short-sighted to put it mildly, as CS before was used
for Czechoslovakia. Reusing the code was a very bad idea. We had
a discussion about that in 2003/2004, see my mail
http://l10n.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=2976
and the thread it appears in; for those with a local mail archive, it's
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Citing from that mail:

| As there is no real solution to this problem, and still no decision made
| by any authority, especially not the ISO 3166 maintenance agency, we'll
| stick to YU for the following reasons:
| 
| - Almost all already existing software only knows about YU, not CS. Not
|   using YU in the file format would result in unrecognized locales in
|   interoperability.
| - ICU, the i18n library OOo uses, has YU entries, using CS instead would
|   only lead to error prone mappings at all times.
| - WIPO recommends the use of YU until the ISO 3166/MA has taken a final
|   decision, see
|   http://www.wipo.org/scit/en/meeting/sdwg/4/pdf/scit_sdwg_4_6.pdf
|   section 5.

Of course we can consider re-evaluation of how OOo will handle this, but
in this special case it is not simply "follow the standard".

  Eike

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