[PATCH][BZ #14879] Add ia_FR locale

Carlos O'Donell carlos@systemhalted.org
Wed Nov 28 14:44:00 GMT 2012


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> 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?

I have no objections. The original patch seems OK, but I'm quite busy
right now and haven't been able to give it my usual review.

Cheers,
Carlos.



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