[Foundation-l] Translation of the language names

[Milos Rancic]

There is an important distinction between translating all language
names and translating the language names of Wikimedia projects. For
the first one I suggest usage of OmegaWiki, of course (Gerard, may you
give the links to the ISO 639-* sets at OW?), which may be filled by
other projects, too. Babel templates/extension should contain not only
WM languages, too.

The other thing is the set of languages which are used at WM projects.
This should be the priority for translation. When we have translated
the most of them, we would be able to have, for example, multilingual
www.wiki*.org pages, as well as a lot of other lists which contain
language names of WM projects.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> There are many more languages then provided by either the CLDR or the
> ICU-project.. Also we have a need not only but also for the name of the
> language. The codes as used by the ICU are a mix of the codes used by the
> different ISO-639 standards.. The Babel extension is aware of both ...
> Thanks,
>    GerardM
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Anon Sricharoenchai <anon.hui at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 5/15/08, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hoi,
>> >  The Babel extension that is being developed in Betawiki has all these
>> >  languages translated into the native language. Also the name for the
>> >  language is initially retrieved from the CLDR standard. We will welcome
>> your
>>
>> Another solution is to use libicu (http://www.icu-project.org/) via
>> php-intl extension (http://docs.php.net/manual/en/intro.intl.php).
>> ICU have already imported those translations from CLDR.
>> See
>> http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?_=fr&SHOWLanguages=1#Languages
>> , for an example of french translations.
>>
>> With php-intl, use,
>> http://docs.php.net/manual/en/locale.getdisplaylanguage.php: to get
>> localized display of language name
>> http://docs.php.net/manual/en/locale.getdisplayscript.php: localized
>> display of script name
>> http://docs.php.net/manual/en/locale.getdisplayregion.php: localized
>> display of region name
>>
>> MediaWiki then could have magic variables for these translations.
>>
>> >  help localising the Babel extension... We truly want it to become
>> available
>> >  as a WMF extension :)
>> >
>> >  I am still puzzled what you want to use it for.. There are many projects
>> >  that have already done exactly this and many are available under a free
>> >  license as well..
>> >  Thanks,
>> >       GerardM
>>
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