Re: [libreoffice-l10n] toki pona translation

Hi ducksel,

On Monday, 2023-10-16 22:12:44 +0000, ducksel wrote:

> I have intent to translate Libre Office into toki pona.
> I also have a discord server that has been constructed for this purpose though am willing to 
> switch to a different method of communication.

Personally I dislike Discord due to its proprietary and data privacy
disrespecting nature, and I think Free Software projects should not use
it. However, that's up to the people actually involved with the
translation.

> ISO language code (iso639-3): tok
> Name (english and toki pona): toki pona
> Microsoft locale ID: Unknown due to the site being down at the moment.

There is none. See
https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/i18nlangtag/source/isolang/MS-LCID.lst?r=402dab83
extracted from
https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-LCID/%5bMS-LCID%5d.pdf
(https://winprotocoldoc.blob.core.windows.net/productionwindowsarchives/MS-LCID/%5bMS-LCID%5d-210625.pdf
 )
6/25/2021 rev. 15.0 (currently last revision) as found at
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-lcid/70feba9f-294e-491e-b6eb-56532684c37f

But that doesn't matter for LibreOffice, we'd define a mapping in the
user-defined range.

> Script: latin letters or "sitelen pona"

So here comes the question: will your localization use the Latin script?

I hope so, for one because "sitelen pona" is not a script with an
official ISO 15924 script code and we'd have to make up a private script
tag for the language tag, whereas 'tok'-only could be taken as
defaulting to Latin script, or explicitly stating 'tok-Latn'.

Also,

> "sitelen pona" is a writing system using pictograms.
> It has some fonts.
> Here is a font I found: http://musilili.net/linja-pona/
> Here are more fonts: http://antetokipona.infinityfreeapp.com/font/

these fonts use either dynamically composed compound glyphs, which
likely could make it necessary to implement supporting code for it, or
have glyphs in the Unicode Supplementary Private Use Area-A
U+F1900..U+F1AFF and as the name "Private Use" indicates, it could be
something different on another system, so interoperability isn't
necessarily given, though it is said to be proposed for inclusion on the
Under-ConScript Unicode Registry (note Under-... that is not even
ConScript) but anyway is nothing officially binding.

See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona#sitelen_pona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConScript_Unicode_Registry#Under-ConScript_Unicode_Registry

  Eike

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