[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: About Ubuntu installer import into Rosetta

[From: A S Alam]

ਸ਼ੁੱਕਰਵਾਰ 17 ਮਾਰਚ 2006 16:03 ਨੂੰ, Carlos Perelló Marín ਨੇ ਲਿਖਿਆ:
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:34 +0530, A S Alam wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > 3) Use pa at gurmukhi and pa at shahmukhi
> > >
> > > In both cases, the future Western Pnjabi translations will use "pnb"
> > > (they'll need the locale for this...but anyway they will DO need a
> > > locale)
> > >
> > > 1) is a bit complicated as it requires all projects to progressively
> > > change. It is however more consistent in logn term with ISO 639-3
> > >
> > > 2) is simpler but has the inconvenience of
> > > possible political feelings hurted for PK people who could claim that
> > > "pa" has been kinda "stolen"
> > >
> > > I don't favour 3) because the difference are actually not only in two
> > > ways of writing the same language.
> >
> > but it is, Punjabi is SAME language but ONLY way to write is different.
>
> Then I think we should go for that option. That's what Serbian already
> does. I don't know the political implications in this case, but Serbian
> uses 'sr' as the locale for the main way to write it and sr at ije for the
> other.
>
that will nice and I agree for this!

> I can only say that it's Punjabi translators decision which option
> should we get and, if possible a decision take from both sides.
>
> Amanpreet do you think that you would reach an agreement on this?
>

Thing is that there is only ONE Team exist, which is for Eastern Punjabi
(our Team), no other translator yet start work for Western Punjabi.
so, I don't think there will be need any agreement. 


regards



> Cheers.
>
> > > As you see both my proposals actually need changing things in D-I
> > > anyway..:-)
> >
> > regards
> >
> > > An alternative proposal is not changing anything...with the
> > > inconvenience of not being able to handle D-I/Ubuntu installer
> > > translations easily in Rosetta (well, given that Rosetta is not free
> > > software, that's actually not my main concern....).

-- 
A S Alam

"Either find a way or make one"