On 20/04/2014 Software Valencià wrote:
we would like to be supported by OpenOffice so we could save a lot of work.
No problem! Once we get the things set up (warning: this may take a while, we are about to release version 4.1 -end of April- and we won't do Pootle updates before release) you will only have to translate, and we'll happily do the rest.
Valencian language have to rules (AVL and RACV) as other languages like Norwegian, Galician, Serbian... To prevent misunderstandings by users we suggest you to tag our translation as "Valencian (RACV)" so if other team want to translate "Valencian (AVL)" they can do it. We will use "ca-XV" code if it's free, or other like that.
Thanks for this information. I got some further details and indeed I was wrong (sorry, I didn't know about the two variants of Valencian).
We have technical limitations that make it necessary to use a kludge since we can't support BCP-47 tags (so to use an example you mentioned: we use "sh" and "sr" for the two variant of Serbian, and they are both wrong, but we must live with it).
The current ca-XV is the AVL variant. So, even though it is not maintained at the moment (but it may change soon), we must keep ca-XV for AVL. It's an unofficial code anyway.
Can we settle on ca-XR for the "Valencian RACV" translation? I'm totally inventing it, so stop me if it's crazy. Basically, the logic is that due to technical constraints we have to use "ca-" to identify the main ISO language group, "X" to mean that it is our extension, "R" is randomly chosen by me to denote "RACV" and can be changed into anything else if you prefer.
This way we keep ca-XV open for AVL and ca-XR (or whatever) for RACV and you can work in parallel. If this can help you, we can initialize ca-XR with the files we have now for ca-XV, even though I assume you will have to adapt a lot of strings (but it may still be useful as a reference).
So, can we start to work to be part of next Apache OpenOffice's release?
Let's agree on these details while we finalize the 4.1 release. Then we'll update Pootle as soon as possible and all teams can start working again.
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