Re: changing "ar" text to "su"

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Isn'z Urdu supported in KDE? If not change to gnome, they have Urdu
support ;)

Arafat

Am Di, den 11.05.2004 um 8:32 Uhr +0000 schrieb Chaudhary arian:
> salamz..thank u for ur help...basically i want to add my country (Pakistan) 
> and language (Urdu) flag into kde control center...for that i replaced saudi 
> flag with Pakistan but still the text on it is displayed as "ar" ..so my 
> basic problem is replacing the text...i mean dont u think by replacing those 
> iso  language and country codes in some files in can achive my goal ? can u 
> tell me where to replace arabic iso and country codes by mine ? thank u 
> allah hafiz
> 
> >From: Riyad Preukschas <rpreukschas at web dot de>
> >Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
> >To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
> >Subject: Re: changing "ar" text to "su"
> >Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 22:27:32 +0200
> >
> >Assalamu Alaikum,
> >
> >
> >
> >Chaudhary arian wrote:
> >>salamz.....can anyone plz tell how to change "ar" text appearing on saudia 
> >>arabia flag (which we select from control centre when chosing our desired 
> >>keyboard in kDE) to "su" .......plz tell me the steps necessary
> >-------------------------------^^
> >the country code for Saudi Arabia is "SA" (see below) :)
> >>to achieve this goal..thank u ...allah hafiz
> >
> >I may be mistaken but I don't think it can be changed, because it is just 
> >the representation of the iso language and country codes (ISO 639-1 + ISO 
> >3166 (e.g. en-US,de-CH,ar-SA)).
> >
> >lets look at the locale "ar-SA":
> >- The first two characters represent the language as you see it as text 
> >above the flag.
> >- The last two characters represent the country that language is spoken in 
> >and is displayed as flag below the language code.
> >- If we look at the locale in total we see that it means someone is using 
> >the Arabic language with Saudi Arabian peculiarities.
> >
> >You will agree that you do not speak "Saudi Arabian" in Saudi Arabia but 
> >Arabic with certain differences from other Arabic speaking countries that 
> >are common in Saudi Arabia.
> >That's exactly what the icon is telling you.
> >Sorry!
> >
> >
> >I hope I was able to explain it somehow :)
> >If it was too bad I may try again.
> >
> >
> >Salam,
> >	Riyad Preukschas
> >
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