[libreoffice-l10n] Re: [Enhancement Request] Add Central and Southern Kurdish to languages

Sorry, forgot to finish the subject line.

2013/4/11 Sahand.T <sashther@gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> Locales for LibreOffice only include Northern Kurdish, and it's named
> "Kurdish" instead of the correct "Kurdish, Northern" (Kurdish encompasses
> all variants of the language, it's unspecific). Central Kurdish and
> Southern Kurdish need to be added too since they are basically different
> languages. Central and Southern Kurdish use a modified arabic script by
> default and are RTL whereas Northern Kurdish by default uses latin script
> and is LTR.
>
> I will suggest the mappings without country codes, this is because the
> variants of Kurdish are similar throughout each country and there's not
> much of a use in separating things by country. If country codes are an
> absolute must I can suggest them anyway.
>
> The three letter 639-3 codes should be used in the locale settings for the
> Kurdish variations and not the two letter 639-1 codes, the suggested names
> in the following list should be used and not simply "Kurdish".
>
> ---
>
> Codes and mappings (ISO 639-3):
>
> Mapping: ckb
> Info: RTL, unicode
> Language list:
> English: Kurdish, Central
>  French: Kurde, Centrale
> German: Kurdisch, Zentral
>  Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Sorani
> Swedish: Kurdiska, Central
>  Turkish: Kürtçe, Orta
>
> Mapping: ckb-Latn
> Language list:
> English: Kurdish, Central (latin)
>  French: Kurde, Centrale (latin)
> German: Kurdisch, Zentral (lateinisch)
>  Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Sorani (latînî)
> Swedish: Kurdiska, Central (latinsk)
>  Turkish: Kürtçe, Orta (latin)
>
> Mapping: kmr
> Language list:
> English: Kurdish, Northern
>  French: Kurdes du nord
> German: Kurdisch, Nördliches
>  Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Kurmancî
> Swedish: Kurdiska, Nordlig
>  Turkish: Kürtçe, Kuzey
>
> Mapping: sdh
> Info: RTL, unicode
> Language list:
>  English: Kurdish, Southern
> French: Kurdes du sud
>  German: Kurdische, Süd
> Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Xwarig
>  Swedish: Kurdiska, Sydlig
> Turkish: Kürtçe, Güney
>
> Mapping: sdh-Latn
> Language list:
>  English: Kurdish, Southern (latin)
> French: Kurdes du sud (latin)
>  German: Kurdische, Süd (lateinisch)
> Kurdish, Northern: Kurdí Xwarig (latînî)
>  Swedish: Kurdiska, Sydlig (latinsk)
> Turkish: Kürtçe, Güney (latin)
>
> note: About the ku-TR and ku-SY that are currently there: change the
> language list name for them from "Kurdish" to "Kurdish, Northern". This
> means that there will be three "Kurdish, Northern" in total (ku-TR, ku-SY
> and kmr). All language tools and localizations should be updated and
> assigned to kmr (and not to ku), once that's done I guess ku-TR and ku-SY
> can be removed. If someone still wants to differentiate between Northern
> Kurdish in different countries, then the mappings kmr-XX can be used (and
> not ku-XX as ku is the macrolanguage kurdish and not specifically Northern
> Kurdish).
>
> note 2: sdh-Latn and ckb-Latn are LTR and use the same script as kmr. I
> think they use unicode, but I'm not 100%.
>
> note 3: In the language list, when I write "Kurdish, Northern:", I mean
> the localization that is currently named "Kurdish". Like I said, this
> localization should be renamed to "Kurdish, Northern".
>
> ---
>
> Microsoft added Central Kurdish to Windows 8 and Office 2013. Here are the
> LCIDs for Windows 8 (they're probably the same for Office 2013):
> Central Kurdish, 0x0092, ku
> Central Kurdish, 0x7c92, ku-Arab
> Central Kurdish Iraq, 0x0492, ku-Arab-IQ
>
> (source:
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/E/95EF66AF-9026-4BB0-A41D-A4F81802D92C/[MS-LCID].pdf
> )
>
> A Word 2013 document written in sorani/arabic script and marked as
> "Central Kurdish Iraq" is assigned the code "ku-Arab-IQ" in the xml, just
> as the Microsofts LCID list says (so 0x0492 should be linked to "ckb").
> Text written in latin can't be assigned "Central Kurdish Iraq" in Word
> 2013, this indicates that "Central Kurdish Iraq" ("ku-Arab-IQ") is reserved
> for sorani/arabic script only. Perhaps then, "ku" is reserved for Central
> Kurdish latin (if true then 0x0092 should be linked to "ckb-Latn") and
> "ku-Arab" for Central Kurdish throughout all countries – ie Iraq+Iran –
> meaning that 0x7c92 should be linked to "ckb". But it's hard to say at the
> moment.
>
> Regards
> Sahand

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