Here is my understanding of the problem: the language pack label
"translation updates for language Occitan (post 1500); Provençal" is
ambiguous or misleading.
I looked at other packages for similar cases. The package for Catalan
also mentions Valencian and it has 5 locales associated (France, Spain,
Italy...). Valencian is a dialect of Catalan and the locales ca_ES.UTF-8
UTF-8 ca_es.ut...@valencia UTF-8 suggests that one can choose betwee
Catalan and Valencian.
Occitan has several dialects, but Provençal is both a dialect and a
synonym (in the English language) of Occitan. Wikipdia considers
Provençal ambiguous for that reason and claims the term Occitan is
clearer. Note also that there is only one supported locale (oc_FR) for
this package so one cannot choose between Occitan and Provençal.
The ISO639-1 is a 2 letter for language classification. Occitan is `oc`
and there is no code for any dialect. ISO639-2 is a 3 letter code for
the same purpose. Occitan is `oci` and Provençal is `pro`. Provençal is
considered to be pre 1500. There is no code for the Lengadocian.
How can we improve the situation? One option is the remove the mention
of Provençal. Very few language packages have more than one designation
for a language. Any person speaking Lengadocian or Provençal or Gascon
will notice Occitan as their only choice, just like English is the only
choice for English speaking people in the US, Canada, UK and so on. Once
the package is installed, a choice of locales can further specialize the
language variant (but not in the case of Occitan.
>From a bug triage stand point, I must marked it as confirmed given that
there is a problem. There is enough information to make a decision as to
leave it the way it is or change the label.
BugQuad
** Changed in: language-pack-oc-base (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: language-pack-oc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: language-pack-kde-oc-base (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: language-pack-kde-oc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: language-pack-gnome-oc-base (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: language-pack-gnome-oc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Language name error (Occitan)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63170
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