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Re: [PATCH v3] Fix Country name for xh_ZA
- From: AKHILESH KUMAR <akhilesh dot k at samsung dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, Mike FABIAN <mfabian at redhat dot com>, Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- Cc: "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:47:31 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Fix Country name for xh_ZA
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- Reply-to: akhilesh dot k at samsung dot com
> As a general rule I don't think we should make changes based only on Wikipedia. Please at least check their references, and cite the primary source in the locale file.
I believe wiki page in locale language is more trusty (specific to locale information like Country name specific to that country, week, months for that locale etc ) then other sources.
Like locale page for indian language.
>> 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":
>> 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.
Akhilesh