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Re: [BZ #13951] Fix country_name of dz_BT


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
>
>> According to bugzilla, the original submitters of the locale are not
>> reachable, let's try again with the one address I haven't tried. But perhaps
>> Chris can help as well...
>>
>> Andreas
>
>
> I filed the ticket because the existing country_name entry of "BHU" is
> obviously wrong.
>
> I cited the ISO-3166 PO file as the source for the patch I provided.
> While ISO-3166 is often of questionable accuracy in naming foreign
> lands, I do sometimes make the presumption that the homeland of a
> language is properly translated.
>
>  186 #. name for BTN
>  187 msgid "Bhutan"
>  188 msgstr "àààààà"
>  189
>  190 #. official_name for BTN
>  191 msgid "Kingdom of Bhutan"
>  192 msgstr "àààààà àààààààààààà àààààààà"
>
> However, as Carlos mentioned, WP-en and WP-dz state the name as:
>
> àààààààààà
>
> I think that the ààààà portion of the name is a sort of  suffix,
> probably signifying something on the order of "kingdom of" or "land".
>
> Note the similarity at the end of the names for Nepal and Bhutan both
> ending in "ààààà"
>
> Nepal page on WP-dz
> http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/ààààààà;
> Bhutan page on WP-dz
> http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/àààààààààà;
>
> Seeen in HTML as:
>
> Nepal page on WP-dz
> http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B
>
> ending in %E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B
>
> Bhutan page on WP-dz
> http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%96%E0%BE%B2%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%82%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B
>
> ending in %E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B
>
> Given that the original submitters are non-responsive (permanent
> e-mail failure), we will have to look to another informed arbiter.
>
> As the patch submitter, what I would like to propose is to place this
> ticket in WAITING status while I perform some outreach for a more
> definitive answer.  I have in mind reaching out to the UNDP-Bhutan as
> a suitable authority on this question where there should be no
> communication barrier.  They have done IT capacity work with/for the
> Bhutanese govt.
>
> http://www.undp.org.bt
>
> While I know that "BHU" is wrong, I am content to wait for a
> definitive answer so it doesn't have to be patched again later.
>
> I will withdraw and replace the patch when a more definitive answer is
> available.

Chris,

Your plan seems like the best course of action, however, if you find that
you don't have a response within a couple of weeks please return to us and
we'll checkin the original patch as forward progress.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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