Re: [libreoffice-marketing] The Default Currency for Nigeria is divisive
Hi Onyeibo, Le 22/02/2019 à 02:37, Onyeibo Oku a écrit : > Good morning everyone, > > Recently, I tried to configure locale and Currency settings in > Libreoffice 6.2 to reflect my nationality. I ended up with mixed- > feelings. I was happy to see that the developers/designers considered > Nigeria. However, the currency tag or short-description there > presented only one tribe in the multilingual country. Nigerians are > sensitive to issues suggesting that one tribe has national privileges > over the rest. Which is why an entry (currency) bearing "NGN > Hausa (Nigeria)" is bad marketing for Nigeria. > > Nigeria has three major tribes (with associated languages) namely: > Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. To avoid conflict between these tribes (and > others), vendors tend to present their product messages using the > national Language (English). Otherwise, all major languages will be > represented. > > I suggest that the LibreOffice team should consider replacing the word > "Hausa" on that entry with "English" or provide entries for other > tribes as well. This issue bothers on the Currency symbol and its > associated tag and not about Language settings. > > I hope my observation is not convoluted Thanks a lot for your feedback. As you know the product is driven by the community and most of the time implementation is done upon interest by members. And as Italo said, it is inherited from OOo because we miss people like you to prevent such issues. I guess the best way to solve it is to implement the two other tribes that are not represented. Would you like to help us in doing so? If yes, drop me a private mail and I'll follow-up with you. Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org GSM: +33683901545 IRC: sophi Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+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/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] The Default Currency for Nigeria is divisive
Onyeibo highlights an important issue which I'm sure might never have occurred to many of us, whether in the context of LO or anything else. There are many countries around the world where the "nation" does not define the lowest level of cultural or linguistic sub-division. Even in Europe there is Switzerland as an example. Perhaps everyone contributing to LO should be asked to consider their own country/region to see if there are similar local issues which LO could address better. Nige From: Onyeibo Oku Sent: 22 February 2019 01:37 To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] The Default Currency for Nigeria is divisive Good morning everyone, Recently, I tried to configure locale and Currency settings in Libreoffice 6.2 to reflect my nationality. I ended up with mixed- feelings. I was happy to see that the developers/designers considered Nigeria. However, the currency tag or short-description there presented only one tribe in the multilingual country. Nigerians are sensitive to issues suggesting that one tribe has national privileges over the rest. Which is why an entry (currency) bearing "NGN Hausa (Nigeria)" is bad marketing for Nigeria. Nigeria has three major tribes (with associated languages) namely: Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. To avoid conflict between these tribes (and others), vendors tend to present their product messages using the national Language (English). Otherwise, all major languages will be represented. I suggest that the LibreOffice team should consider replacing the word "Hausa" on that entry with "English" or provide entries for other tribes as well. This issue bothers on the Currency symbol and its associated tag and not about Language settings. I hope my observation is not convoluted Regards Onyeibo -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libreoffice.org%2Fget-help%2Fmailing-lists%2Fhow-to-unsubscribe%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1f4358b6273417bdbd908d698717c27%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636864010507615905&sdata=lpCnjFF9ArJoENUR1JDXYooyGAByNzDnQobq9tfX1hE%3D&reserved=0 Posting guidelines + more: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.documentfoundation.org%2FNetiquette&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1f4358b6273417bdbd908d698717c27%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636864010507628886&sdata=LIGvPArHm4dGrb%2FNPzq9urLZKdVg4hmb%2BPLrYpXWJrY%3D&reserved=0 List archive: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistarchives.libreoffice.org%2Fglobal%2Fmarketing%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1f4358b6273417bdbd908d698717c27%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636864010507628886&sdata=2MqO44ZI5iWgv1EHQMH0ZeWJyWqrBbtJv9ZsH143iLk%3D&reserved=0 Privacy Policy: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.documentfoundation.org%2Fprivacy&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb1f4358b6273417bdbd908d698717c27%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C636864010507628886&sdata=X5m0e1DoBDZ3dTEkwfPV0kRbQcMzh1iU8RbQi2wTk7c%3D&reserved=0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+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/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] The Default Currency for Nigeria is divisive
Hi Onyeibo, Thanks for the information. I think we have inherited the choice from OpenOffice, and we have never updated it (because we miss people like you able to help us in understanding local specificities). I have forwarded your message to the people in charge of software development, as the choice is hard coded into the program and we need some tweaks to apply the change. Thanks and best regards, Italo On 22/02/2019 02:37, Onyeibo Oku wrote: > Good morning everyone, > > Recently, I tried to configure locale and Currency settings in > Libreoffice 6.2 to reflect my nationality. I ended up with mixed- > feelings. I was happy to see that the developers/designers considered > Nigeria. However, the currency tag or short-description there > presented only one tribe in the multilingual country. Nigerians are > sensitive to issues suggesting that one tribe has national privileges > over the rest. Which is why an entry (currency) bearing "NGN > Hausa (Nigeria)" is bad marketing for Nigeria. > > Nigeria has three major tribes (with associated languages) namely: > Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. To avoid conflict between these tribes (and > others), vendors tend to present their product messages using the > national Language (English). Otherwise, all major languages will be > represented. > > I suggest that the LibreOffice team should consider replacing the word > "Hausa" on that entry with "English" or provide entries for other > tribes as well. This issue bothers on the Currency symbol and its > associated tag and not about Language settings. > > I hope my observation is not convoluted -- Italo Vignoli - Marketing & PR email italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - skype italovignoli hangout/jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+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/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-marketing] The Default Currency for Nigeria is divisive
Good morning everyone, Recently, I tried to configure locale and Currency settings in Libreoffice 6.2 to reflect my nationality. I ended up with mixed- feelings. I was happy to see that the developers/designers considered Nigeria. However, the currency tag or short-description there presented only one tribe in the multilingual country. Nigerians are sensitive to issues suggesting that one tribe has national privileges over the rest. Which is why an entry (currency) bearing "NGN Hausa (Nigeria)" is bad marketing for Nigeria. Nigeria has three major tribes (with associated languages) namely: Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. To avoid conflict between these tribes (and others), vendors tend to present their product messages using the national Language (English). Otherwise, all major languages will be represented. I suggest that the LibreOffice team should consider replacing the word "Hausa" on that entry with "English" or provide entries for other tribes as well. This issue bothers on the Currency symbol and its associated tag and not about Language settings. I hope my observation is not convoluted Regards Onyeibo -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+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/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
