https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122045
Bug ID: 122045
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Summary: Add Northern/Central/Southern Kurdish to the language
list box
Classification: Code
Product: Internationalization
Version: AOO 3.4.1
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: BiDi
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Locales for LibreOffice only include Northern Kurdish, and it's named "Kurdish"
instead of the correct "Kurdish, Northern" (Kurdish encompasses all variants of
the language, it's unspecific). Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish need to be
added too since they are basically different languages. Central and Southern
Kurdish use a modified arabic script by default and are RTL whereas Northern
Kurdish by default uses latin script and is LTR.
I will suggest the mappings without country codes, this is because the variants
of Kurdish are similar throughout each country and there's not much of a use in
separating things by country. If country codes are an absolute must I can
suggest them anyway.
The three letter 639-3 codes should be used in the locale settings for the
Kurdish variations and not the two letter 639-1 codes, the suggested names in
the following list should be used and not simply "Kurdish".
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Codes and mappings (ISO 639-3):
Mapping: ckb
Info: RTL, unicode
Language list:
English: Kurdish, Central
French: Kurde, Centrale
German: Kurdisch, Zentral
Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Sorani
Swedish: Kurdiska, Central
Turkish: Kürtçe, Orta
Mapping: ckb-Latn
Language list:
English: Kurdish, Central (latin)
French: Kurde, Centrale (latin)
German: Kurdisch, Zentral (lateinisch)
Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Sorani (latînî)
Swedish: Kurdiska, Central (latinsk)
Turkish: Kürtçe, Orta (latin)
Mapping: kmr
Language list:
English: Kurdish, Northern
French: Kurdes du nord
German: Kurdisch, Nördliches
Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Kurmancî
Swedish: Kurdiska, Nordlig
Turkish: Kürtçe, Kuzey
Mapping: sdh
Info: RTL, unicode
Language list:
English: Kurdish, Southern
French: Kurdes du sud
German: Kurdische, Süd
Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Xwarig
Swedish: Kurdiska, Sydlig
Turkish: Kürtçe, Güney
Mapping: sdh-Latn
Language list:
English: Kurdish, Southern (latin)
French: Kurdes du sud (latin)
German: Kurdische, Süd (lateinisch)
Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Xwarig (latînî)
Swedish: Kurdiska, Sydlig (latinsk)
Turkish: Kürtçe, Güney (latin)
note: About the ku-TR and ku-SY that are currently there: change the language
list name for them from "Kurdish" to "Kurdish, Northern". This means that there
will be three "Kurdish, Northern" in total (ku-TR, ku-SY and kmr). Also, all
language tools and localizations should be updated and assigned to kmr instead
of ku, once that's done I guess ku-TR and ku-SY can be removed. If someone
still wants to differentiate between Northern Kurdish in different countries,
then the mappings kmr-XX can be used (IQ,IR,SY,TR) (and not ku-XX as ku is the
macrolanguage kurdish and not specifically Northern Kurdish), I don't recommend
having country codes though.
note 2: sdh-Latn and ckb-Latn are LTR and use the same script as kmr. I think
they use unicode, but I'm not 100%.
note 3: In the language list, when I write "Kurdish, Northern:", I mean the
localization that is currently named "Kurdish". Like I said, this localization
should be renamed to "Kurdish, Northern".
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Microsoft added Central Kurdish to Windows 8 and Office 2013. Here are the
LCIDs for Windows 8 (they're probably the same for Office 2013):
Central Kurdish, 0x0092, ku
Central Kurdish, 0x7c92, ku-Arab
Central Kurdish Iraq, 0x0492, ku-Arab-IQ
(source:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/E/95EF66AF-9026-4BB0-A41D-A4F81802D92C/[MS-LCID].pdf)
A Word 2013 document written in sorani/arabic script and marked as "Central
Kurdish Iraq" is assigned the code "ku-Arab-IQ" in the xml, just as the
Microsofts LCID list says (so 0x0492 should be linked to "ckb").
Text written in latin can't be assigned "Central Kurdish Iraq" in Word 2013,
this indicates that "Central Kurdish Iraq" ("ku-Arab-IQ") is reserved for
sorani/arabic script only. Perhaps then, "ku" is reserved for Central Kurdish
latin (if true then 0x0092 should be linked to "ckb-Latn") and "ku-Arab" for
Central Kurdish throughout all countries – ie Iraq+Iran – meaning that 0x7c92
should be linked to "ckb". But it's hard to say at the moment.
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