Comment 3 for bug 236028

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Kaihsu Tai wrote:
> Arne:
>> There is no option to use Minnan, because there doesn't exist any locale for Minnan.
> Are there any instructions on how to create a locale?

it's not that complicated, but the locale would need to be submitted to
upstream (glibc).

I can create one for you, if you help me to translate some terms for it:

 * abday: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
 * day: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
 * abmon: Jan. Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
 * mon: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August,
September, October, November, December
 * am_pm: am, pm
 * yesexpr: ^[yY].*
 * noexpr: ^[nN].*
 * yesstr: Yes
 * nostr: No
 * name_miss: Miss.
 * name_mr: Mr.
 * name_mrs: Mrs.
 * name_ms: Ms.
 * country_name: Taiwan

Further more I need to know the collation of the alphabet:
I believe that it's a-z plus o͘, where o͘ gets sorted after o.

>> Further more, as Minnan can be used with Latin script and also with
> Hant script, we should discuss if it would be better to create two
> locales and two sets of translations and let the users choose.
>
> That is fine, but so far the translation effort has been focused on the
> Latin script variant only, and I would be reluctant to distract the
> colleagues with yet another script. By the way, perhaps these two
> variants can be coded as nan-Latn and nan-Hant (per ISO standards;
> adjust as appropriate). (Hant = traditional Hàn (Chinese) script.)

Agree. So, if possible please translate the above strings into Minnan
using both, POJ and Hant scripts. Then we can have two locales,
nan_TW@Latin and nan_TW@Hant.
Do we need to create a locale for China? If yes, which script do they
use? I believe they don't use POJ (AFAIK POJ has been introduced by some
church when they baptized Taiwanese Minnan speakers, but I'm not sure if
it had made it's way back to Southern China...), but some Han script,
although I'm not sure if they use Hant or Hans...

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