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See <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=irc">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=irc</A> (will re-route +</I>>><i> web site list to this one). +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Here, #mageia-uk first come for United Kingdom, first served. For +</I>>><i> Ukraine/ukrainian-speaking, -ukr or -ua or something else? +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Romain +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Seems like this is all wrapped up at last. Ideally we could a model of +</I>><i> both local teams and language teams being able to use a 2 character +</I>><i> country/language code. It might be possible to have for example +</I>><i> #mageia-es to cater for Spanish speaking support and local Spanish +</I>><i> events if that is the will of the channel owner, or one or the other. I +</I>><i> reckon that we should take this on a case-by-case basis by listening to +</I>><i> the teams involved in how they would like their #mageia-* namespace to +</I>><i> be used. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> With regions such as Wales (Cymru in Welsh) it may be a better option to +</I>><i> use three letter codes such as -cym for Cymru, -sco for Scotland or -bzh +</I>><i> for Brittany. Or we could have #mageia-fr-br to represent that Brittany +</I>><i> is part of France and #mageia-uk-cy to show that Cymru/Wales is part of +</I>><i> the UK. We should try to stick to the ISO standards are closely as +</I>><i> possible but there may be times where two groups, i.e. a country code +</I>><i> and a language code may conflict and it best to serve those on a first +</I>><i> come first served basis in my humble opinion. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Anyone else got any differing ideas for the matter at hand? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Cofion Gorau +</I>><i> Chris +</I> +In order to circumvent problems with the confusion of 2 letter code with +country-code and language-code designation, the ISO ratified the ISO +country-code with 2 letters +(<A HREF="http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements">http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements</A>); ISO +ratified the ISO language-code with 2 or 3 letters +(<A HREF="http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=639_3&letter=e">http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=639_3&letter=e</A>) -- not that +the SIL International, site that this link points to, is the +international organization in charge of codifying the language codes.. + +In our case a country-code designation and a country-code designation fo +3 letter would solve the problem. + +#mageia-uk (channel for country-localization - UK) +#mageia-eng (channel for language-localization - English language) + +#mageia-fr (channel for country-localization- France)) +#mageia-fra (channel for language-localization - French language) + +#mageia-es (channel for country-localization - Spain) +#mageia-spa (channel for language-localization - spanish language) + +The is clear and easily explainable and verifyable by identifying our +reasons in a FAQ item with a link to the sites in charge of the conventions. + +How easy is that? + +Marc + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002201.html">[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002210.html">[Mageia-discuss] IRC community channels - need a ruling from the board +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2205">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2205">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2205">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2205">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |