[Fsf-friends] Fwd: [karunakar@freedomink.org: [Indlinux-group] Punjabi vs Panjabi debate.]

[Mahesh T. Pai]

FN, can you give this a bit of publicity amongst your punjabi speaking journos??

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 > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:01:00 +0530
 > From: Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar@freedomink.org>
 > Subject: [Indlinux-group] Punjabi vs Panjabi debate.
 > To: indlinux-punjabi@lists.sourceforge.net,
 > 	indic-computing-users@lists.sourceforge.net
 > Cc: indlinux-group@lists.sourceforge.net
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 > 
 > Hi all,
 >  Offlate a debate has been going on in Gnome l10n circles as to how
 > 'Punjabi' is to be written. Gnome has policy to follow ISO language
 > codes, where language code is 'pa' ,written as 'Panjabi' for Punjabi. 
 >  Other projects like KDE, SF.net, .. also follow same policy.
 > 
 > List of language codes is at
 > http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html
 > 
 >  Right now Punjabi is not well supported, but when it does have
 > support (locale, font, input methods) , this point will be constantly
 > raised by users.
 >  It would be interesting to note that usage of 'Panjabi' is restricted
 > to compliance of ISO 639 codes or by those who are not aware of the
 > language name and come to know of it from ISO standards. 
 > 
 >  Some threads from Gnome-i18n
 > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2003-February/msg00155.html
 > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2003-February/msg00156.html
 > 
 > Its important that someone takes, this up with respective Punjabi
 > language bodies, Govt of Punjab, TDIL/ MIT GOI to persue the matter
 > with ISO to get the change done. 
 > I hope native speakers take this up (& I will keep making noises till
 > someone takes it up :), since later on when language is better
 > supported, it could grow into bigger debate. 
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Karunakar
 > 
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