Re: locale for Uzbekistan

[Mashrab Kuvatov <kmashrab sat physik uni-bremen de>]

On Thursday 25 September 2003 18:37, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 12:04, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > Owen Taylor wrote:
> > >  - The difference between ISO 15924 script codes and lowercased English
> > >    names.
> >
> > Cyr is not the ISO 15924 code.  That would be Cyrl.  The former is just
> > something somebody made up.
>
> I think @Cyr apparently was just a transcription error somewhere along
> the line. A uz@Cyrl translation was recently added to GTK+.
>
> > Since there is no required format for the @xyz part on the part of the
> > locale name that part better be description.  We use @euro, we used
> > @bokmal.  There is no reason whatsoever to use anything but @cyrillic.
>
> I won't take a position here ... I'm just trying to convince people
> to agree on something.

Like I said in my previous email, it is fine if libc's convention for cyrillic
script locale is @cyrillic. I do not think it is a big deal to change @Cyrl
to @cyrillic for existing translations. What do you think Pablo ?

Pablo: Please have a look at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-09/
to catch up with discussion. Sorry, I did not think of CCing you from the
beginning.

> But, I think the reasoning is that ISO-15924 is a standard for names for
> scripts, and a script name was wanted, so the ISO-15924 name was used.

Exactly.

Cheers,
Mashrab.

Ps. You do not have to CC me. I am in libc-alpha list.

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Mashrab Kuvatov
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University of Bremen, IUP
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