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Re: [developers] Arabic language entries in OOo

Salam Wathek,


Wathek LOUED a écrit :
I've a question what's the difference between Arabic Tunisia or Arabic Algeria, or Arabic Palastine or any other Arabic ? I think that Arabic is Arabic it's not necessary to have many Arabic isn't it ?
Yes, there are few differences: Money Symbol (Dinar, dirham, Ryal ...), date (In Lybia, arabic names of month are different with regard to the other countries), time (/GMT), the StartDayOfWeek ... 

Thanks

Mohamed



thanx guys ;)
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Mohamed kebdani <kebdani1 at menara dot ma <mailto:kebdani1 at menara dot ma>> wrote: 

    Ossama Khayat a écrit :

    > Thank you Mohamed. I'll forward this to Sun contacts and maybe
    we need to create a bug report for these to be included.
    >
    > regards,
    > Ossama
    >
    Ok Ossama,

    Here below, a copy of my message, I send to
    "dev at lingucomponent dot openoffice dot org
    <mailto:dev at lingucomponent dot openoffice dot org>" few minutes ego:

    First , for the list of the absent countries, with the exception of
    Israel and of the Eritrea, I notice that it is the same that those
    ignored by Windows (TM): Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Mauritania,
    Palestine,
    Somalia & Sudan; OOo uses the same list of supported locale and
    countries in Windows (TM):

    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/lcid-all.mspx
    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/winxp/xp-lcid.mspx
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776294.aspx
    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/lcid-all.mspx
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q221435

    I think that OOo would make happy many persons if it adds countries
    forgotten by Redmond :) so the entries which I suggest are below but
    there no "LCID Hex" and  "LCID Dec"  for majority of them :( (except
    Israel and Eritrea)

    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_COMOROS,              "ar", "KM" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_CHAD,              "ar", "TD" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_DJIBOUTI,              "ar", "DJ" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_MAURITANIA,              "ar", "MR" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_PALESTINE,              "ar", "PS" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_SOMALIA,              "ar", "SO" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_SUDAN,              "ar", "SD" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_ISRAEL,              "ar", "DJ" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_ERITREA,              "ar", "ER" },


     Secondly, I notice, in OOo configuration, that the window: Options -
    Language Setting - Languages: CTL (complex text layout), shows only
    Tunis, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon & Egypt; the same countries we see at:

    http://l10n.openoffice.org/source/browse/l10n/i18npool/source/localedata/data/

    I'll suggest, soon, to Arabeyes project (www.arabeyes.org
    <http://www.arabeyes.org>) to make
    locale xml files for all of the countries absent and submit them
    to OOo.

     Thanks,

     Mohamed Kebdani
    > ----- Original Message ----
    > From: Mohamed kebdani <kebdani1 at menara dot ma
    <mailto:kebdani1 at menara dot ma>>
    > To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org
    <mailto:developer at arabeyes dot org>>
    > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:28:01 PM
    > Subject: [developers] Arabic language entries in OOo
    >
    > Salam,
    >
    >
    > I'm working to build arabic spelling extension for OOo 3.
    > http://ayaspell.sourceforge.net/temp/dictionaries-ar-1.0.1.oxt
    >
    > The probleme is that the list of countries where Arabic is an
    official
    > language is incomplete.
    >
    > In OOo, we have only:
    >
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC,                      "ar", ""   },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_EGYPT,                "ar", "EG" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_SAUDI_ARABIA,         "ar", "SA" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_UAE,                  "ar", "AE" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_IRAQ,                 "ar", "IQ" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_LIBYA,                "ar", "LY" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_ALGERIA,              "ar", "DZ" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_MOROCCO,              "ar", "MA" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_TUNISIA,              "ar", "TN" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_OMAN,                 "ar", "OM" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_YEMEN,                "ar", "YE" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_SYRIA,                "ar", "SY" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_JORDAN,               "ar", "JO" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_LEBANON,              "ar", "LB" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_KUWAIT,               "ar", "KW" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_BAHRAIN,              "ar", "BH" },
    >     { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_QATAR,                "ar", "QA" },
    >
    > What is the list of the ones you think
    > should be added. Also the issue settings should be:
    >
    >   component l10n, subcomponent i18npool
    >
    > Please, see:
    >
    >
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_Arabic_is_an_official_language
    >
    > Can you help?
    > Thank you
    >
    >
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