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[lojban] Making a jbo locale file and package for installation, need some suggestions.
I've decided to scrape together a Lojban localization file, to match the one used and distributed for Esperanto, to make it so that open source software that takes advantage of locales can easily be translated.
However I've run into a couple things that I think would be best to consult on first. Here's a (mostly comments) version of what I have so far:
Anything with %% is to point out something specific.
Date/Time:
Monday-Friday can use the planetary Lojban equivalents, or the numerical equivalents. Which would be preferable?
Each month has a lujvo and cmene equivalent, again, which would be best?
What do we want for 3-letter abbreviations?
What date format do we use, or do we just inherit it from somewhere else?
Numbers:
There's no way I can make it output digits as letters, unfortunately. I can control decimal points, thousands seperators, and a couple of others. Should we leave them as-is?
On currency, do we have a symbol we wish to use? Would it make sense to use EUR? Do we want +/-, just -, or even {ma'u|ni'u}?
LC_MESSAGES:
Only really one thing here, what letters are yes, what letters are no?
Phone/address:
Does it really need any change, and if so, where?
Most of what's in the file above is still what it was when I got it, almost everything has multiple ways to go about doing them, many more regional than language influenced.
In 2010 David Gowers made a simple Lojban locale which pulled most of its information from en_AU (and in fact that's pretty much all we need!) but making a definitive jbo package to match the Esperanto one would probably be more beneficial overall.
Also he mentioned an Arch package. Unfortunately he hasn't been around the list for a while :<
Any/all suggestions are welcome!
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