Alex Fisher wrote: >> Joost Andrae wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > the entry "Macedonian" on the page >> > http://download.openoffice.org/other.html is used as language entry. >> > It's not used as a country name. >> >> The reason why Sophie has sent this to this list obviously is that >> people are very picky about these things and it would be good for our >> project to stay out of any politically motivated discussions and just >> only use descriptions that are widely accepted. >> >> Can we clarify this by asking someone from the Native Language >> Community? Does a "Macedonian" language exist and is this the correct >> term to describe this language? > > The Macedonian *language* certainly does exist, just as Serbian and Croatian > are now regarded as separate languages. The three languages are related, > Macedonian having a strong Greek influence. Macedonian uses the Cyrillic > script (as does Serbia), so localisation is quite essential.
So it looks as if our page is correct and as the column title is "Language" and not "Country", I think we are on the safe side. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
