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Re: [lojban] Re: Computing in lojbanistan
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:03:20PM -0000, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> --- In lojban@egroups.com, "LYlun.martins." <lalo@h...> wrote:
> > I'd like to invite experient lojbanists who use Unix, GNU/Linux
> > or similar systems, and use software internationalized trough
> > potfiles (such as most GNU/Linux software), to translate some
> > potfiles to lojban.
>
> We need lots of specialized computer jargon to do that. If we were
> to
> suddenly start inventing lots of new computer terms, they would, as
> Lojbab has pointed out, run the risk of being flawed and/or malrarbau.
But we have this list and peer review. :-)
> > export LANGUAGE=lb:pt_BR
>
> You mustn't do that! "lb" is the ISO two-letter language code for
> letzeburgesch!
Ooops.
> Unless the GNU internatinalization system is hard-coded for two
> letters (which I doubt), you can and should use "x-lojban" as the
> language code for Lojban.
I'd suggest to register i-lojban or i-lb or something. Someone
only has to send a message formatted like:
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LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
Name of requester :
E-mail address of requester:
Tag to be registered :
English name of language :
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII):
Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
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to . More info on RFC 1766.
Of course there is no problem with x-lojban either; it isn't
standard (as w3c says, "experimental codes without guarantee for
uniqueness") but who would use x-lojban for anything else?
[]s,
|alo
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