On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:16:50PM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> wrote: > > Current Arabic locale definitions are so buggy with many incorrect or > > even missed details, as an Egyptian, I'm considering ar_EG locale but > > many of these details are true for other Arabic locales. > > > > #Month and Day names: current definition includes truncated month and > > day names as abbreviated form; thing like ÙÙØ§Ø ÙØ¨Ø±Ø Ù Ø§Ø±Ø etc. > > Those forms are completely non-sense in Arabic and not used any where, > > simply abbreviated form should be the same as complete form (like what > > fa_IR locale is doing) > > > > #Digits:Egypt, and most Arabic countries except Al-Maghrib Al-Arabi, > > uses Arabic-Indic (or Mashriqi Arabic) digits, the locale definition > > should reflect this, which it doesn't currently. > > > > #Date formates: currently the full date form prints like, خ٠Ùس ÙÙÙÙÙ > > 14, it should be something like اÙخ٠Ùس 14 ÙÙÙÙÙ, the same with > other > > date formates, date formates also needs fixing. > > > > #Collation rules (alphabetic sorting): this needs more investigation, > > how we should treat WAW HAMZAH ABOVE and YEH HAMZA ABOVE; as a variant > > of yaa' and waw or as forms of alef? alef forms with hamza and maddah > > should precede or follow the normal alef? I think the better way to > > solve this is to find how Arabic dictionaries deal with this issue. > > > > We started a wiki page > > (http://wiki.arabeyes.org/اÙإعدادات_اÙÙ ØÙÙØ©) to > > collect information about that issue, if any one knows the details > > about other Arabic speaking countries please add it their. > > > > Waiting for your ideas and comments. > > Khaled, did you submit your changes/modification to the proper/actual > maintainers of these locales ? Did you contact anyone that is affiliated > with maintaining the locales ? If not, then please do so and see what > their reactions are - let's start a dialog with _them_ to at a min raise > their awareness to all these issues... > > Salam & keep up the great work ! > That what I was planning to, but I was waiting to see of someone here have some issues/ideas, as it seems there isn't, I'll be submitting this to mainstream soon ISA. -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian GNU/Linux user Member of Arabeyes team [www.arabeyes.org] My Blog: [www.khaledhosny.org] Support Free Knowledge [ar.wikipedia.org]
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