Switching to Kreyol ?

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>



OK. Now this needs to go into the packages that the maintainers
release. I'll also check if sugar needs some autoconf magic to get the
mo file included.

Thanks,
Sayamindu


>> 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 (Kreyòl 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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