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 Reply-To: indlinux-group@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Organization: Netcore Solutions

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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