[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Alioth bug #312424: Include sr at latin locale

[Christian PERRIER]

(to people CC'ed: this thread is happening in the development mailing
list for iso-codes, a package providing lists of various ISO standards
related to i18n such as ISO-639, ISO-3166, etc....as well as their
translations. iso-codes is maintained by Debian maintainers but also
used quite widely outside Debian. You can answer to the list as it
allows post from unsubscribed addresses)

Quoting Tobias Quathamer (toddy at debian.org):
> Dear fellow maintainers,
> 
> it was brought to my attention a fews days ago that there's a problem in
> Fedora with the Serbian translation of iso-codes[1]. Apparently, the
> Serbian language is using synchronic digraphia[2]. From wikipedia:
> 
> "The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and an adapted Latin alphabet are both
> widely used in Serbia in a large variety of contexts and most Serbian
> speakers are able to read and write in both."
> 
> The solution would be to provide a cyrillic and a latin variant of the
> translation. If we think of the cyrillic variant as the "master file",
> the latin variant could simply be generated with the command:
> 
> recode-sr-latin < sr.po > sr at latin.po
> 
> Should we always just convert the current sr.po (in cyrillic) to latin
> script before releasing a new tarball? Am I missing something? Opinions?
> 
> Regards,
> Tobias
> 
> [1] <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481240#c5>
> [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphia>

At first glance, I'd say yes.

It would be interesting to have an advice by some Serbian
translators. CC'ing those I know about, who work on CP6Linux, a
Debian-derived distro entirely localized in Serbian.

Do you guys think it would be OK if we generate "Serbian in latin
script" translations rom the "Serbian in Cyrillic script" translations
we already have?

(PS: BTW, updating Serbian translations for Debian Installer would be
a good idea..:-))


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