[PATCH][BZ #14879] Add ia_FR locale

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 11/28/2012 02:35 AM, Nik Kalach wrote:
> Here is a new locale for review.

Jeff wrote the following in bugzilla:
> The current glibc package and the upstream glibc do not include Interlingua
> locale for any region. A lot of Fedora programs like Anaconda,
> system-config-language and Publican depend from the presence of the correct
> locale in the system. For these programs it is not enough just to set up the
> LANGUAGE environment variable to localize the interface. Anaconda and
> system-config-language perform system locale configuration themselves and do
> not support setting of the LANGUAGE variable in /etc/locale.conf or
> /etc/sysconfig/i18n.
> Anaconda, Firstboot, system-config-language, s-c-time and s-c-keyboard are
> translated to Interlingua but the lack of the Interlingua locale creates
> usability problem or, in case of Anaconda and s-c-language, it does not allow
> the programs to operate as expected.
>
> Fedora documentation and Web-site use Publican for formatting. All necessary
> Interlingua localizations are available but Publican cannot use them without
> the locale. As a result, Fedora documentation in Interlingua cannot be built in
> the standard Fedora Project build environment.
>
> To solve these problems I propose to add an attached patch to the glibc
> package. It adds the ia_FR locale.
>
> Supporting information for this locale is following:
> 1. The ISO-639-1 code for the language: "ia"
> 2. Languages of France:
>    http://www.ethnologue.com/15/show_country.asp?name=FR
> 3. The leading Interlingua association "Union Mundial pro Interlingua"
>    is registered as a French non-profit association. Registration #0911004931
>    http://www.interlingua.com/statutos
> 4. The locale data are available in CLDR.
> 5. The ethnological information is available here:
>    Gordon, Raymond G. (ed.). 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15 edn.
>    http://www.ethnologue.com/15/web.asp (09 July, 2008.)
>    This source specifies the geography for this language as "France"
>    See: http://multitree.org/trees/17702.xml
> 6. Interlingua is registered by IANA with subtag "ia".
>    See http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
> 7. General information about the language and its history is available here:
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

This is an artificial language but based on the comments by Jeff, I 
suggest to add it since it's not a "toy" language but used. Any 
objections or comments?

Andreas
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