[vlc-devel] Sorani Kurdish (ckb) for VLC 1.0

[Ara Bextiyar]

Hello,

No, Sorani is spoken by Kurdish from Iran too. There are more Kurdish
population in Iran than Iraq. So it must not be "ckb_IQ.po" Let's just
forget about it, as you said it is not important.

for the name in the preferences it would be better if it is:
کوردیی سۆرانی
or
کوردی (سۆرانی)
also it is not such a problem. You can add only "کوردی" because people know
it is Sorani as its written in Arabic Script.

Windows does not know anything about Kurdish language. That is because of
politics :).

Thanks,
Ara

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at chewa.net>wrote:

> Ara Bextiyar a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > Now the Sorani Kurdish is %31 percent translated. the archive below
> > contains both Win32 installer and qt library.
> >
> Merged. Thanks
>
>
> > And for your information I did some update in the language info. Before
> > it was "Sorani" it should be "Kurdish (Sorani)" it is the same as
> > "Chinese (Simplified)" and "Chinese (traditional)" or English (US),
> > English (UK) ... So I changed
> > and if it is possible please change the .po file name to "ku-ckb.po"
> Here we have a problem that Sorani Kurdish software translation seems to
> be at its early age.
>
> The name of the po file is only important on Linux.
> In ISO 639-1 there is only ku for kurdish
> In ISO 639-3 there is ckb for Sorani
>
> And Sorani is mainly spoken in Irak if i understood correctly.
>
> So my view is that it should be ckb.po or ckb_IQ.po or ku_IQ.po
>
> But i have also found a few ku_ckb on internet.
>
> The real answer will come when Sorani get integrated in glibc.
>
>
> For windows and MacOSX, we can call it like we want.
> And in 1.0.0 we choose to have the translated name in the preferences.
> So I will add
> سۆرانی
> to the list except if you give me a better one.
>
> What can be tricky is with the autodetection of the language: Does
> windows know about kurdish? Does it know about the three different
> dialects ? If yes, how does it refers to them.
>
>
>
> --
> Xtophe
>
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