On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 31/12/2012 Hamid Farroukh wrote: >> >> I have made a dictionray extension for the transcription of Persian >> with Latin alphabet. That means, I have a way of writting Persian as >> I would write English or German. This should help joung Persians >> living in the US and Europe to learn Persian and write Persian texts. > > > Hi, is this version of Persian something that you personally conceived or > something more standardized, perhaps one of the Persian transliterations > listed at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language#Latin_alphabet ? > > If it has a name and it is a somewhat standard transliteration, we can > definitely include it in OpenOffice 4, expected in April or around. > > >> 1- Is it possible to use a custom dictionary for Persian as a >> "western language"? Users should see an entry in the language >> selection indicating Persian. > > > Adding another language is feasible. We prefer to add languages that have an > ISO code or some form of standardization. It wouldn't be called "Persian" to > avoid name clash, but something like "Persian (Latin)" or "Persian > (Fingilish)" (if that's the name) could be feasible. Note that here I'm just > referring to add a language name, i.e., just one additional option in the > list where you can select if your text is in English, or German, or French > and so on. >
This spec is rather new, so I don't know if Pootle supports it yet, but it gives a syntax for BCP language tags with transliteration: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6497 -Rob > >> 2- If not, may I publish it to the >> extension page for others to use? Users should know that they can use >> this dictionary, when they chhose Esperanto as language. Or would I >> viloate some policies? > > > We don't have a strict policy on this (I mean: we surely won't delete the > extension from extensions.openoffice.org, even though we would require that > the problem and the workaround are properly explained), but it would be much > clearer to just add the language to OpenOffice, to avoid conflicts and > misunderstandings. Just tell us more about this variant of Persian and we'll > see how to handle that. > > Regards, > Andrea.
