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Re: [BZ #13951] Fix country_name of dz_BT
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 02:29:25PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here's a patch to fix the country_name of dz_BT.
> >
> > Ok to commit?
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> > 2012-11-16 Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com>
> >
> > [BZ #13951]
> > * locales/dz_BT: Fix country_name to be in Dzongkha.
> >
> > --- a/localedata/locales/dz_BT
> > +++ a/localedata/locales/dz_BT
> > @@ -649,7 +649,8 @@ postal_fmt
> > "<U0025><U0066><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0061><U0025><U004E>/
> > <U0025><U0074><U0025><U0062><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0068><U0025><U0074>/
> > <U0025><U0073><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0054><U0025><U004E><U0025><U0053>/
> > <U0025><U004E><U0025><U007A><U0025><U0063><U0025><U004E>"
> > -country_name "<U0042><U0048><U0055>"
> > +% àààààà
> > +country_name "<U0F60><U0F56><U0FB2><U0F74><U0F42><U0F0D>"
>
> According to wikipedia the official name for Bhutan is àààààààààà not àààààà.
>
> Notice the similarity between the names? It makes me think that the
> country_name here is a short form, but I'd like to have that confirmed
> and I'd like to see the English phonetic version in brackets to
> assist future non-native speakers.
>
> Can you confirm with the original submitter what is actually being
> described here?
I agree some native speakers should be consulted, but I suspect àààààà
should be used. àààà simply means "land", and is used informally to
speak about the country, but official things seem to omit it. See the
national library's website:
http://www.library.gov.bt/index-DZ.html
with Dzongkha and English side-by-side:
"Bhutan: Mountain Fortress of the Gods"
"àààààà ààààààààààààà àààààààààà ààààààààààà"
Rich