Hello Eike,

Peter already contacted me a while ago and we talked; it seems that
Peter chose the localization project option. I'm not so sure though.
Peter, do you have questions about all this?

Best,
Charles.

Eike Rathke a écrit :
> Hi Peter,
>
> Stumbled over by accident on the discuss@ list..
>
> On Monday, 2006-10-23 21:10:11 -0400, Peter Damiana wrote:
>
>   
>>   I'm hereby sending my proposal for the localization of the Papiamento
>> language.
>>     
>
> As a general advice: it's much easier for people to read and follow up
> on a mail if they don't need an external program to open it..
> furthermore, quite some attachments are stripped from the lists, so it's
> more or less good luck if you got through with your attachment.
>
> Anyway, as the proper mailing list for localization topics is
> dev@l10n.openoffice.org instead, to subscribe
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], and I'm crossposting this
> reply to that list (reply-to also set to that list), I'll quote all you
> wrote in your attachment:
>
>   
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I propose to start a native lang project,
>>     
>
> I think this is more about the localization of the OOo software, or am
> I wrong on this?
>
>   
>> because I have noticed that the
>> community here in Curaçao are becoming more and more interested in developing
>> the language Papiamento and using it as the instructional language in
>> education. I also consider the fact that there are many older natives who are
>> learning to use the computer, who may not be 100% in English. This way, they
>> will feel more comfortable in using a software like this to create documents
>> etc. In general, I believe that this will very helpful in education.
>>
>> Regards
>> Peter Damiana
>>
>> PS: This is the information you may need for the  proposed language:
>>
>> English Name    All English     All French  ISO 639-2   ISO 639-1 
>> of Language         Names   Names
>> Papiamento      Papiamento  papiamento  pap 
>>
>>
>> Language - Country/Region   LCID Hex        LCID Dec 
>> Papiamentu              0479            1145
>>     
>
> We already have a mapping of LangID 0x0479 to ISO codes pap-AN. To be
> able to assign Papiamento to a portion of text, or to select the
> Papiamento UI from a multi-lingual installation, we'll need
> a corresponding language listbox entry. What is the time frame we're
> talking about, when can we expect the need of supporting the pap-AN
> locale earliest?
>
>   Eike
>
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>
>   

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