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Re: [PATCH v3] Fix Country name for xh_ZA
- From: Mike FABIAN <mfabian at redhat dot com>
- To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- Cc: Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh dot k at samsung dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:07:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Fix Country name for xh_ZA
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Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
> 17.08.2017 11:07 Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.k@samsung.com> wrote:
>>
>> > [BZ #21959]
>> > locales/xh_ZA: Fix country_name
>> >
>> > ---
>> > localedata/locales/xh_ZA | 5 ++---
>> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/localedata/locales/xh_ZA b/localedata/locales/xh_ZA
>> > index e01a620..8fb69da 100644
>> > --- a/localedata/locales/xh_ZA
>> > +++ b/localedata/locales/xh_ZA
>> > @@ -217,9 +217,8 @@ name_ms ""
>> > END LC_NAME
>> >
>> > LC_ADDRESS
>> > -% Country name in Xhosa - "Mzantsi Afrika"
>> > -country_name "<U004D><U007A><U0061><U006E><U0074><U0073><U0069><U0020>/
>> > -<U0041><U0066><U0072><U0069><U006B><U0061>"
>> > +% https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMzantsi_Afrika
>> > +country_name "UMzantsi Afrika"
>
> The same wiki article also contains "uMzantsi Afrika" as its title,
> with the lowercase "u" despite it's in the beginning of a sentence.
> At the same time, CLDR says "eMzantsi Afrika":
>
> http://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/xh/T_Africa/
>
>> > %
>> > % Abbreviated country postal name - "ZA"
>> > country_post "<U005A><U0041>"
>>
>> committed.
>
> OK, let's leave it as it has been committed. I'm not telling this
> is wrong, I'm telling that with the variety of versions I don't know
> which is correct and it may be changed in future, for example if
> a native speaker requests.
Yes, it looks a bit difficult.
The CLDR value from the survey tool
http://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/xh/T_Africa/ is probably also
preliminary because there is no
http://www.unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/main/xh.xml yet.
--
Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>