Hi, On Thursday, 2022-02-10 12:06:23 +0530, Prasanta Hembram wrote:
> while translating various software like. Inkscape ( > https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/tree/master/po) that uses "sat" and > sat@deva. and the same for sat_olck in other projects. In linux they use > something different like sat_IN for some reason. I'm still not able to > understand how code pairing is done, but they work :-/ > > As, Ol Chiki is now Now? Since when? > the official script for Santali language which means, > the code "sat" should mean same as "sat-Olck" but here in Weblate (Libre) > already "sat" code is occupied with Devanagari writings, means current > "sat" code assigned in Libre ( > https://translations.documentfoundation.org/languages/sat/) should be > "sat-Deva" The 'sat' with the default sat-IN locale suppressing the Devanagari script was added already in 2008, back then BCP47 wasn't used and proper language tags mostly unknown and not supported (and not even today by many software). It also seems that the Linux sat_IN locale actually implies Devanagari. See https://lh.2xlibre.net/locale/sat_IN/ that in Dates (LC_TIME) uses Devanagari letters. > *my question* is will it not cause any confusion in future > related to default script for Santali language. Yes, that may be. The remedy would be to explicitly state the script and not rely on omitted defaults, in fact the IANA language subtag registry https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry does not list any Suppress-Script for 'sat'. For document content written by LibreOffice that can easily be done fiddling with the language code mapping tables, reading sat/sat-IN should still default to sat-Deva-IN though to not break existing documents and map the sat_IN locale properly. For the UI translations we probably could change 'sat' to an explicit sat-Deva, at least it's doable in code and hopefully also in Weblate, but it needs to be coordinated and as long as we map sat/sat-IN to sat-Deva/sat-Deva-IN it shouldn't really matter. Eike -- GPG key 0x6A6CD5B765632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
