Switching to Kreyol ?

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 04:24:46 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta
<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> The locale code would be ht_HT.UTF-8. I need to figure out how much of
> Kreyol translations are in the build yet, but I would suggest that you
> use one of the newer joyride builds.

I committed what I could of XO-Core.

> Another problem is that probably (again, I need to verify this), the
> Kreyole locale is not yet defined in glibc yet. In that case, we will
> need a locale definition file for Kreyole and put it in our glibc
> builds.
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Bastien <bzg at altern.org> wrote:
>> Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> writes:
>>
>>>> Mhh..  I can't seem to find a good reference on this. I will try to
>>>> ask to some haitian developers.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreyol
>>>   The word Kreyol may mean:
>>>     * Liberian Kreyol language
>>>     * Haitian Creole language (KreyĆ²l ayisyen)
>>>     * Kreyol Lwiziyen (Louisiana Creole)
>>>
>>> People in the US are probably familiar with Creole from the New Orleans
>>> region.  (We bought Louisiana from France in 1803.)
>>
>> Thanks*.  The question is: where are the GNU/Linux users who configure
>> their machine so that it speaks Kreyol?  What is the equivalent of the
>> en_EN.UTF-8 code then?
>>
>> I expect many of these users to be from the haitian diaspora, thus using
>> canadian or french locale...
>>
>> * Not for the deal about Louisiana, of course.
>>
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