How to make a locale available for CTL text

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sat Apr 21 21:21:23 UTC 2018


On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 01:59:51PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to set a text in Malay [1] but using the Arabic script (AKA Jawi
> [2]), but it seems that Malay is only allowed for “Western” text and not
> “CTL” and free-form language tags are not allowed in CTL as well. Do I
> need to add a new locale or do something else? Any reason why free-form
> language tags are not allowed for CTL text?

I found https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81714 which
answers the last question somehow (though it is not clear what is
exactly needed). My main question about supporting Jawi is still
unanswered.

Regards,
Khaled
 
> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_language
> 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawi_alphabet


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