[Bug 2268] New locales for South African languages (*_ZA)

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------- Additional Comments From dwayne@translate.org.za  2005-01-18 22:43 -------
> I presume Sesotho means South Sotho, Tsongs means Tsonga, Siswati 
> and Swati are the same?

Sesotho => Southern Sotho
Tsongs => Tsonga - sorry misspelling on the bug report patch is OK
Siswati => Swati

> I'm a bit concerned about the lack of 2-letter code for Northern Sotho 
> and the use of 3-letter language code but I wasn't able to find that 
> it will cause any problem at X11 or existing X11 applications. 

I have also been unable to validate this.

> Another concern is that in some cases, the default codeset is 
> ISO8859-15 (nso and tn) or UTF-8 (ve) and yet majority of them is 
> ISO8859-1. Were these intended and the common practice used in 
> South Africa or should the files have all codeset entries for all languages?

NSO and TN required at a minimum -15 as they both us 's caron' which is not
present in -1. -15 was chosen as the languages both otherwise use common latin
characters except only for the 's caron' and thus this charset was the closest to -1

VE uses a number of characters 'n dot', 'n tilde' etc. According to
http://www.eki.ee/letter/ these are not in any common character set except
Unicode thus we selected UTF-8.

Therefore for NSO, TN and VE iso-8859-1 will not work. And for VE -15 will not work.         
    
    
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