Sorry, forgot to finish the subject line. 2013/4/11 Sahand.T <[email protected]>
> Hi, > > 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". > > --- > > 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). All language tools and localizations should be updated and > assigned to kmr (and not to 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 (and > not ku-XX as ku is the macrolanguage kurdish and not specifically Northern > Kurdish). > > 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". > > --- > > 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. > > Regards > Sahand > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
