--- Khaled Hosny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Current Arabic locale definitions are so buggy with many incorrect or
> even missed details, as an Egyptian, I'm considering ar_EG locale but
> many of these details are true for other Arabic locales.
>
> #Month and Day names: current definition includes truncated month and
> day names as abbreviated form; thing like ÙÙØ§Ø ÙØ¨Ø±Ø Ù
Ø§Ø±Ø etc.
> Those forms are completely non-sense in Arabic and not used any where,
> simply abbreviated form should be the same as complete form (like what
> fa_IR locale is doing)
>
> #Digits:Egypt, and most Arabic countries except Al-Maghrib Al-Arabi,
> uses Arabic-Indic (or Mashriqi Arabic) digits, the locale definition
> should reflect this, which it doesn't currently.
>
> #Date formates: currently the full date form prints like, Ø®Ù
Ùس ÙÙÙÙÙ
> 14, it should be something like اÙØ®Ù
Ùس 14 ÙÙÙÙÙ, the same with
other
> date formates, date formates also needs fixing.
>
> #Collation rules (alphabetic sorting): this needs more investigation,
> how we should treat WAW HAMZAH ABOVE and YEH HAMZA ABOVE; as a variant
> of yaa' and waw or as forms of alef? alef forms with hamza and maddah
> should precede or follow the normal alef? I think the better way to
> solve this is to find how Arabic dictionaries deal with this issue.
>
> We started a wiki page
> (http://wiki.arabeyes.org/اÙإعدادات_اÙÙ
ØÙÙØ©) to
> collect information about that issue, if any one knows the details
> about other Arabic speaking countries please add it their.
>
> Waiting for your ideas and comments.
Khaled, did you submit your changes/modification to the proper/actual
maintainers of these locales ? Did you contact anyone that is affiliated
with maintaining the locales ? If not, then please do so and see what
their reactions are - let's start a dialog with _them_ to at a min raise
their awareness to all these issues...
Salam & keep up the great work !
- Nadim
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