Re: Serbian translation begins
(Alex Malinovic, serbian tanslator, and Safir Secerovic, bosnian
translator, CC'ed. Please keep CC unless one of both mentions he's
subscribed to -boot)
Quoting Anton Zinoviev (zinoviev@fmi.uni-sofia.bg):
> > This is cyrillic-written Serbian.
>
> This is interesting. Serbians prefer Cyrillic in their everyday life
> (books, papers, etc.), however I have the impression that in computers
> they use only the Latin alphabet with ISO-8859-2. (Officialy both
> alphabets can be used to write Serbian.) I think XFree doesn't have
> proper keyboard support for Serbian Cyrillic (this is easy to fix though).
Indeed, after exchanges with Alex Malinovuch, who offered to to sr
translations, we ended up with this solution.
We can also notice that we currently have "Bosnian" (bs) as one of d-i
languages. From what I have retained from exchanges with Alex, Bosnian
is indeed the serbian language as spoken in Bosnia and
Herzegovina.....the current translation by Safir Secerovic (sorry for
special characters....I currently have no way for inputting them) uses
Latin alphabet.
So, but I may be wrong, we could have two different kinds of serbian
(or serbian-like) languages in d-i :
"serbian" (sr) being cyrillic-written serbian
"bosnian" (bs) being latin-written "serbian"
Besides some political feelings (I'm pretty sure thay will arise some
day), this seems a quite good choice.
But, of course, involved people have their word to say on this topic.
>
> > The languagechooser entry needs some fine tuning probably in a way
> > similar to other cyrillic languages such as Ukrainian and Russian.
>
> We have three options for the second stage:
>
> 1. use the locale sr_YU.UTF-8@cyrillic. UTF-8 is a must because
> people will need to use the Sebian Latin alphabet.
>
> 2. use sr_YU. This locale is for ISO-8859-2. I think this is the
> most popular option in Serbia and Montenegro. The console has to be
> a Latin console.
>
> 3. use sr_YU.UTF-8. Like 2. but allows to use Cyrillic.
I have used the first choice, but Alex may disagree.
I leave the rest of your mail so that CC'ed people may get the context.
>
> > The only valid locale with sr is currently sr_YU in libc. The chosen
> > country will be however "CS" (Serbia and Montenegro) as the "YU"
> > country is no longer part of ISO-3166.
>
> Until GNU systems support CS locales YU has to be used. Ofcource the
> name of the country will be "Serbia and Montenegro", not "Yugoslavia".
>
> > Whether an "other" country choice will be needed as Serbian may be
> > spoken elsewhere will be discussed.
>
> Serbians live also in Bosnia and Croatia. Only 10 years ago there was
> only one language named "Serbocroatian" (or sometimes "Croatoserbian")
> but I suppose that Serbians in Croatia and Bosnia will prefer their
> language to be named Serbian rather than Croatian or Bosnian.
>
> Anton Zinoviev
>
>
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