Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-04 Thread Marcus (OOo)
BTW: IMHO there was a similar discussion if and how to integrate the Catalan language variante spoken in Valencian beside the normal Catalan one. At the end we have enabled and integrated translation for Valencian - also because there was a strong support to do all the work - as you can see

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: 1) What constitutes a language is as much a political and cultural question as a linguistic one. No sense debating it here. Ultimately what matters to us is whether ISO assigned a code to the language or not, so a technical issue; as I wrote earlier, it did in ISO 639-2

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Neapolitan is classified as a dialect, not a language, for good reasons. It's in ISO 639-2 so it's a language, and it's distinct from Italian. Among the local languages spoken in Italy, we already fully support the four variants of Sardinian according to ISO 639-3

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Dale Erwin
On 9/2/2011 10:23 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Hi Dale; With due respect to Italy's cultural richness (which I so much admire being italian myself but not only because of that), Neapolitan is classified as a dialect, not a language, for good reasons. Compared to standard italian you use the

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Andrea and Dale; Ugh... I'll take back everything I wrote ... sorry. The classification between languages or dialects in Italy, is something that I know very well not to get into. Yes, I've had my doze of Naepolitan, Friulian, Roman, and Triestin. cheers, Pedro. --- On Sat, 9/3/11, Andrea

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
OK. Before someone starts saying nasty things about Garibaldi, it would be good to state some things I hope we all agree on: 1) What constitutes a language is as much a political and cultural question as a linguistic one. No sense debating it here. 2) OpenOffice.org has a rich history of

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi; --- On Sat, 9/3/11, Dale Erwin d...@casaerwin.org wrote: ... Spoken like a true northern Italian bigot... with all due respect. Please note I did not call you a northern Italian bigot... I said you speak like one.  Maybe you are just misinformed. I should've thought better before

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Jomar Silva
A huge +1 on that ! Jomar PS.: A Klingon OpenOffice would be amazing to see :) On 2011/8/3 19:24 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: OK. Before someone starts saying nasty things about Garibaldi, it would be good to state some things I hope we all agree on: 1) What constitutes a language is

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Peter Junge
On 04.09.2011 06:47, Jomar Silva wrote: A huge +1 on that ! Jomar PS.: A Klingon OpenOffice would be amazing to see :) AFAIR that was one of the first language projects back in 2001 (or so), at least it was discussed, but was never released. On 2011/8/3 19:24 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: On 04.09.2011 06:47, Jomar Silva wrote: A huge +1 on that ! Jomar PS.: A Klingon OpenOffice would be amazing to see :) AFAIR that was one of the first language projects back in 2001 (or so), at least it was discussed,

Re: Fwd: [users] Re: Languages

2011-09-02 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Dale; With due respect to Italy's cultural richness (which I so much admire being italian myself but not only because of that), Neapolitan is classified as a dialect, not a language, for good reasons. Compared to standard italian you use the same character set and gramatical rules.