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Re: [PATCH v3] Fix Country name for xh_ZA
- From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- To: Mike FABIAN <mfabian at redhat dot com>, Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh dot k at samsung dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:02:22 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Fix Country name for xh_ZA
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- References: <CGME20170817085421epcas5p10203f2ec829260f5e002a760fab5e045@epcas5p1.samsung.com> <1502959765-7379-1-git-send-email-akhilesh.k@samsung.com> <s9dtw16k1ei.fsf@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
17.08.2017 11:07 Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.k@samsung.com> wrote:
>
> > [BZ #21959]
> > locales/xh_ZA: Fix country_name
> >
> > ---
> > localedata/locales/xh_ZA | 5 ++---
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/localedata/locales/xh_ZA b/localedata/locales/xh_ZA
> > index e01a620..8fb69da 100644
> > --- a/localedata/locales/xh_ZA
> > +++ b/localedata/locales/xh_ZA
> > @@ -217,9 +217,8 @@ name_ms ""
> > END LC_NAME
> >
> > LC_ADDRESS
> > -% Country name in Xhosa - "Mzantsi Afrika"
> > -country_name "<U004D><U007A><U0061><U006E><U0074><U0073><U0069><U0020>/
> > -<U0041><U0066><U0072><U0069><U006B><U0061>"
> > +% https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMzantsi_Afrika
> > +country_name "UMzantsi Afrika"
The same wiki article also contains "uMzantsi Afrika" as its title,
with the lowercase "u" despite it's in the beginning of a sentence.
At the same time, CLDR says "eMzantsi Afrika":
http://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/xh/T_Africa/
> > %
> > % Abbreviated country postal name - "ZA"
> > country_post "<U005A><U0041>"
>
> committed.
OK, let's leave it as it has been committed. I'm not telling this
is wrong, I'm telling that with the variety of versions I don't know
which is correct and it may be changed in future, for example if
a native speaker requests.
Regards,
Rafal