Re: start Punjabi (pa_IN) Indic Language Translation
--- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> (please followup to -i18n)
>
> We discussed the various initial issues in private
> with Amanpreet
> (hmm, you have to tell me whether this is your first
> name, sorry for
> that).
Yes, Amanpreet is my First Name
>
> languagechooser and localechooser have the needed
> entries for handling
> Punjabi when it will be ready.
>
> There was no real problem and I expect the Punjabi
> team to start
> commiting translations quite soon. Of course, this
> will put more
> pressure on us for getting some progress on the
> graphical installer
> as, like Hindi, Punjabi will require it.
>
> We have concluded that the Punjabi translation will
> officially be
> called "Punjabi (Gumurkhi)". The code used will be
> "pa_IN" and not "pa".
>
> The reason is that the Punjabi language is spoken
> both in India and
> Pakistan : the spoken language is the same, but the
> scripts are
> different. Punjabi in India (sometimes called
> "Eastern Punjabi") is
> written with the Gumurkhi script, an Indic type
> script, while Punjabi
> in Pakistant (called "Western Punjabi") is written
> in a Persian-style
> script named "Shahmukhi", like Urdu (which is the
> official langage in
> Pakistan, though only spoken by 8% of the
> population).
>
> Given that difference, which is close to te
> difference in the ways of
> writing the Chinese language ("Simplified" used in
> Continental China
> and Singapore and "Traditional" used in Taiwan,
> Hong-Kong, Malaysia
> and overseas), I think the best way to sort it out
> is using "pa_IN"
> for Punjabi using the Gumurkhi script while we will
> maybe someday use
> "pa_PK" for Punjabi using the Sahmukhi script.
>
> It has to be noted that the current Punjabi
> translations of software
> indeed use "pa" rather than pa_IN. However,
> Amanpreet Alam agreed that
> using pa_IN is far more logical in case some
> translators start working
> on a pa_PK translation (Punjabi is the language of
> half the population
> in Pakistan!).
>
>
>
>
>
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Thanks
Amanpreet Singh Alam
Punjabi Team!
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