Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Request for the addition of Santali (Ol Chiki) langauge

Hi,

On Thursday, 2022-02-10 12:06:23 +0530, Prasanta Hembram wrote:

> while translating various software like. Inkscape (
> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/tree/master/po) that uses "sat" and
> sat@deva. and the same for sat_olck in other projects. In linux they use
> something different like sat_IN for some reason. I'm still not able to
> understand how code pairing is done, but they work :-/
>
> As, Ol Chiki is now

Now? Since when?

> the official script for Santali language which means,
> the code "sat" should mean same as "sat-Olck" but here in Weblate (Libre)
> already "sat" code is occupied with Devanagari writings, means current
> "sat" code assigned in Libre (
> https://translations.documentfoundation.org/languages/sat/) should be
> "sat-Deva"

The 'sat' with the default sat-IN locale suppressing the Devanagari
script was added already in 2008, back then BCP47 wasn't used and proper
language tags mostly unknown and not supported (and not even today by
many software). It also seems that the Linux sat_IN locale actually
implies Devanagari. See https://lh.2xlibre.net/locale/sat_IN/ that in
Dates (LC_TIME) uses Devanagari letters.

> *my question* is will it not cause any confusion in future
> related to default script for Santali language.

Yes, that may be. The remedy would be to explicitly state the script and
not rely on omitted defaults, in fact the IANA language subtag registry
https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry
does not list any Suppress-Script for 'sat'.

For document content written by LibreOffice that can easily be done
fiddling with the language code mapping tables, reading sat/sat-IN
should still default to sat-Deva-IN though to not break existing
documents and map the sat_IN locale properly.

For the UI translations we probably could change 'sat' to an explicit
sat-Deva, at least it's doable in code and hopefully also in Weblate,
but it needs to be coordinated and as long as we map sat/sat-IN to
sat-Deva/sat-Deva-IN it shouldn't really matter.

  Eike

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