Re: Kurdish - we give it a start

[Арангел Ангов <arangel angov gmail com>]

ÐÐ ÐÑÐ, 2005-08-30 ÐÐ 14:27 +0100, Simos Xenitellis ÐÐÐÐÑÐ:

Please, all of you, don't start with this issue here as it may attract a
flamewar or smth.

Many languages of the minorty speaking population are still forbbiden in
many of the Balkan countries but that doesn't stop a GNOME user to use
the enviorment in his/her own language. 

If there's something I've learned from a few years of work with
localization projects it's that we shouldn't waste time on politics, it
will get us nowhere.

-Arangel

> According to the Human Rights Watch 
> (http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/turkey/turkey993-08.htm),
> it appears that minority languages have been prohibited in Turkey. It 
> appears that the Kurdish language
> has not been prohibited specifically (all minority languages suffered, 
> including Greek), but rather
> the effect was worse on the Kurdish language as the population speaking 
> it was much larger
> and there was no other country to develop it.
> I am not sure if the consistution and the practices have changed since 
> 1999 (link?), though
> the long legacy might be hard to change.
> It appears that in neighbouring countries with Kurdish populations there 
> have been similar situations.
> 
> Therefore, the point that Erdal makes could be rephrased from
> "because it has been forbidden in Turkey"
> to
> "because it has been effectively prohibitited in Turkey until [date]"
> 
> 
> >>The other difficulties are, as you said, economical underdevelopment and 
> >>little computer access. I am happy that the international free software 
> >>community - and especially the GNOME supports all kinds of localization 
> >>efforts. Because other players in the software market don't.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I personally support every attemt to localize software for local
> >market/usage. Kurdish is no exception. You can get support from our
> >mailing list gnome-turk gnome org  And for sending Kurdish translations
> >untill your cvs account will be ready, you can send your files to me and
> >I can commit them to CVS. 
> >  
> >
> I think this help would be great for the new language support.
> 
> Simos