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Re: Tajik Language - Adding support for a new language



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> My name is Victor Ibragimov, a professional translator and coordinator for many projects like KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuse, Mandriva, PC-BSD, LibreOffice and many others.
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> I would like to become a coordinator and contribute with Tajik translations for Debian (Debian Installer), and help with sync of Debian translations for Tajik language since some of them seems to be come from the upstream projects which I coordinate and contribute to with Tajik translations.


That's great news. Tajik was among our "missing languages" and
Tajikistan one of the blank spots on my quite well known worldmap of
supported languages in D-I..:-)

So, let's start to go through the new language process
(http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n/ch03.html), which you indeed initiated....

> Below is information, which may help to add new language (Tajik language) to Debian. But it seems to be some of my translations are already there: http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po/tg
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> TAJIK LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION                                                                                                                                                                                   
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> Language name in English: Tajik
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> Language name in Tajik: Тоҷикӣ
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> Language code: tg, tgk, tg_TJ
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> Coordinator's name: Victor Ibragimov
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> Coordinator's email: victor.ibragimov@gmail.com


Recorded in the list of supported and "soon to be supported" languages
of Debian Installer. That completes step 1

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> DETAILS FOR NEW MAILING LIST
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> Name: debian-l10n-tajik@lists.debian.org
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> Rationale: This mailing list is created to support Tajik translations for Debian
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> Category: Internationalization and Translations
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> Subscription Policy:  open
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> Post Policy: open
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> Web Archive:  yes

To get a mailing list on Debian list servers, you need to follow the
guidelines described at http://lists.debian.org. For l10n lists, it's
usually encouraged to build a small community first (eventually by
using a mailign list not hosted on Debian servers), then request the
creation of the list. Otherwise, experience shows that we have too
many empty mailing lists. But that's often debated as a list is also
likely to attract contributors : chicken and egg problem.


Anyway, all these informations complete steps 1 and 2 of the new
language process.
3.1. First contact with Debian Installer development team 
3.2. New language identification 

The bnext step is "3.3. Locale checking/writing ":
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n/ch03s03.html

The Tajik locale already exists in Debian:
cperrier@mykerinos:~/src/debian/debian-installer/trunk/installer/doc/i18n(master) $ ls -l /usr/share/i18n/locales/tg_TJ 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6377 juin  30 01:34 /usr/share/i18n/locales/tg_TJ

So, step 3 is completed too..:-)

Now for step 4. 

Can you send me a small UTF-8 encoded file with the name of the Tajik
language, in Tajik. That's what will be recorded in the language
choosing step in Debian Installer.

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