Note - My wife lived in Turkey for over a year or so
and she loved the place.
Now politics should have no place in help lists.
But people should have the options of using
there "native" language when using open source
software.
If you do not see the language you want to use, Help
Open Office correct the problem.
There are a lot of languages out there, and if you
speek one that is not in the current list, look into
the options on helping create a dictionary for that language.
I speak no other language than English. But I know people who
have spoken two or three other languages in their native country.
India, I am told have many, many languages.
You have the right to complain if you are "wronged"
but you also have the right to help as well.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Voets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Cemal Çörez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: openoffice 2.0.3
2006/11/24, Russell Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
> Cemal Çörez wrote:
>> Sorry. You understand me wrong. I want to say " in Turkey we dont use
>> Kurdish.
>
> Perhaps you, personally, do not use Kurdish, but there are Kurds in
> Turkey who do. Kurdish(Turkey) is for their use.
>
>> We use here Turkish and in openoffince 2.0.3 hasn got
>> Turkish(Turkey). It has only Kurdish(Turkey).
>
> I don't know about 2.0.3, but I have 2.0.4, and it certainly has
Turkish.
>
>> Its wrong. I and my friends
>> want to you will change it only Kurdish
>
> A locale named "Kurdish" would be for the Kurdish homeland, if they had
> one, which they do not.
>
>> and please add here
>> Turkish(Turkey)".
>
> It is not necessary to have Turkish(Turkey), because Turkish is used
> only in Turkey.
>
There seems to be a misunderstanding here.
While the Language setting "Turkish" is available, there is no Turkish
dictionary listed at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
There is a Turkish native language project at
http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html
It would appear that the problem is a lack of an open source Turkish
spelling dictionary
Russell
Hello
We have collected quite some confusion here...
Maybe the OP has some political issue, since some factions in Turkey don't
want to hear about there being a Kurdish minority living in their country
(and the use of the Kurdish language is or was at times prohibited).
Language facts:
• Farsi is the language of Iran, and known as Persian in the West. It has
nothing to do with Kurdish or Turkish
• The language of Turkey, of the Turks, is Turkish
• The Kurdish minority, a people without country (even if the British and
the Americans at certain points in history promised to provide them with a
Kurdish state in order to gain their implication in wars they were waging),
lives scattered over parts of Turkey, Irak, Iran, and even Syria. They
speak Kurdish, and one might expect that due to their scattering over
different countries, this language won't be homogeneous. Also the script may
differ, since Turkey uses roman script, other countries other scripts.
Language notation:
the rule seems to be to indicate the language + the country: zh-CN for
'continental' Chinese and zh-TW for Taiwanese; or en-UK and en-US for
British and American English.
For Kurdish, there is room for 4 seperate entities, since the language is
spoken in 4 countries (ku-TU, ku-Sy etc.)
OOo facts:
• the DictOOo macro for importing extra dictionaries only mention Kurdish,
and there are indeed 2 Kurdish dictionaries available (one for Kurdish from
Turkey, the other from Syria).
• There is a Turkish OOo project, but I didn't find a Turkish dictionary
Maybe the OP just wants to find a Turkish dictionary?
--
Guy
using english OOo 2.0.4 on an G4 iMac Panther and on a G4 PPC Powerbook
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