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[Kenneth Nielsen <k.nielsen81@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/8/1 David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> El dl 01 de 08 de 2011 a les 18:59 +0200, en/na Milo Casagrande va
> escriure:
>> Hi,
>>
>> even for me, as a technical aspect, I would prefer that the language
>> we accept all have their technical requirements fulfilled (ISO code,
>> glib support for it, appropriate fonts).
>>
>> To accept or not fun languages (Pirate English, reverse script) and
>> artificial ones, why not? If there are people willing to commit to it,
>> let them have fun (like probably other people will have using them).
>>
>> In this particular case, I would accept the language if it pass the
>> technical requirements.
>>
>> @David: do you prefer if we report our thoughts on the Launchpad
>> question directly?
>>
>
> Thank you all for the great feedback. @Milo: feel free to reply on
> Launchpad if you want. I contacted the list to probe what you guys
> thought before coming back to the support request.
>
> I think we more or less think the same: we should let the community open
> the teams for the languages they want to spend their time on, but the
> ISO code part is quite tricky on this particular case.
>
> I'm not too all in favour of creating a placeholder code in LP,
> especially if we don't know if such a code will ever be accepted in glib
> (until the ISO itself approves one), which would mean that people could
> translate in LP, but never use their translations.
>
> Perhaps we should, as a workaround, ask the original poster talk to the
> glib maintainers first, although I'm not sure how receptive they will be
> to create an ISO code not yet accepted as standard.

I'm not sure, but I think that was exactly what the thread I was
talking about from the gnome list was about. I'm sorry I don't
remember it better, but I think the reply from the glibc people will
be the same.

>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
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