Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Luganda Localization Project(New)

Hi Eike,

Thank you very much for this informative feedback. It's really helpful 
moving forward. It looks all okay to me so far.

Regards,
Phillip

On 2/22/21 5:46 PM, Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday, 2021-02-19 16:26:56 +0100, Sophie Gautier wrote:
>
> > >   * ISO-639-1 --- *lg*
> > >   * ISO-639-2 --- *lug*
> If available we use ISO 639-1 two letter codes, so 'lg'.
>
> > >   * Country code(ISO 3166-1) English --- *UG*
> > >   * Country code(ISO 3166-1) French --- *UGA*
> > >   * Country Alpha Code (ISO 3166-1) --- *800*
> We use ISO 3166-1 two letter codes, so 'UG'.
> Also note that "English" vs "French" makes no sense here, ISO *codes*
> are language agnostic.
>
> > >   * Microsoft Locale ID --- *0x1000* (lg)
> That MS 0x1000 LCID is a generic ID not tied to any locale, it basically
> says "you're up to yourself implementing this, MS didn't (and probably
> won't)".
>
> > > Luganda is spoken majorly in Uganda, with no other known dialects and
> > > therefore the two character ISO-639-1 code: *lg *will sufficiently
> > > define it.
> > @Eike, could you let me know if it's ok on your side?
> We already have
> Ganda {lg-UG} 0x063B
> even with locale data available
> https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/i18npool/source/localedata/data/lg_UG.xml
>
> A 'lg' UI localization should be perfectly fine.
>
> Note that the language listbox' English UI name for the language is not
> Luganda but 'Ganda' because that is what ISO 639 says
> https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/lug
>
>    Eike
--
Phillip K. Samuel


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