[Qgis-tr] fa_IR or fa translation

[Werner Macho]

Hi!

Well .. I don't know every language by heart but I know that pt_PT and
pt_BR have to be seperated because they are in fact a lot different ..

I don't know if the same applies to "simple" fa and fa_IR..
If there are different types of Farsi we should try to cover them ..
but to be honest I think it would only be worth the effort if they
differ a lot ..

In other words .. What are the farsi speaking members of this list say?
Is there anyone outside who can answer that question?

If nobody can tell I'd prefer to a "fa" covering all farsi languages
in all countries where they speak farsi ..

And to be more correct - I am austrian - speaking german (there is no
de_AT for QGIS) and if I want to be picky I can even tell you that my
dialect I am speaking could be counted as it's own language as well ..
But I can understand, read and speak "de" so having that language is
enough for "german speaking" countries..
(The last sentence is just to make sure that we are not diverging the
languages where it is not necessary)

thanks a lot
kind regards
Werner


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net> wrote:
> Hi Werner,
>
> I received a msg via transifex from Masoud asking to add fa_IR (persian
> in Iran) for website/docs.
> But because for the application we already had 'fa' and I do not want to
> have different language codes for the same language, I asked if it was
> ok to have 'fa' (without the country suffix) too.
> See his answer below.
>
> Do you know the translator of fa in QGIS? Would you ask him/her to
> change the code to fa_IR too? Or otherwise sent him the mail below and
> see if we can keep the persian code for our different projects in sync?
>
> OR should we move to the 3 letter codes of languages?
> Is somebody really comfortable with all this different codes, who can
> inform us what the best way is to used codes for languages.
> We want to maximize translations, but minimize the number of work or
> number of codes.
>
>
> Regards,
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
>
>
>
> Hi Rechard
>
> It's better to know in ISO 639-3 the 'fa' is separated to 2 different code.
> First is 'Dari' with the 'prs' code and the other is 'Western' and
> specified by 'pes' code.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3
>
> Our target will be the western fa with the name of fa_IR, because it is
> the official language in Persian.
> So I suggest you use the fa_IR from now on.
>
> Regards,
>
> Masoud Pashotan