2005/9/14, Charles-H.Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Vladimir, > > Thank you for your interest in OOo and the Native-Lang Confederation. > You may want to proceed in several steps. I believe that as this is an > urgent matter, you may want to go first to the L10N project > (http://l10n.openoffice.org) and work with Pavel Janik directly. Then, > after the Marathon is completed, we will have time to open a native-lang > project. Of course, if you need such a project now, we can discuss that, > but the set up will take time. > Sorry to sound bothering, but I'd like to ask a rather important > question: what is the status of the controversy about the Macedonian > language (ISO code, final name, etc.)? Has it it been solved? > > NB to the list: although I don't know much about this controversy, I'll > sum it up here briefly: the name of Macedonia as a country and > Macedonian as a language is seen as problematic by some other nations, > particularly Greece, who puts forth the argument that Macedonia and > Macedonian are integral parts of the Greek culture, and as such an > independent country calling itself Macedonia is problematic for Greeks, > who besides, have an administrative province that is called Macedonia. > One thing leading to another, there has been an UN resolution (but here > I may be wrong) that basically requested Macedonia to change its flag > and call itself Skopje. Actually it seems that some people in Europe > call modern Macedonia "Skopje". You can hence see how we can have a > problem for the ISO code and locale.
You are a bit wrong. Skopje is the capitol of FYR Macedonia (as the official name). FYR - Former Yugoslavia Republic -- Ain Vagula --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
