bobj Reporter
	Description • 25 years ago

Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: Code for Bosnian language]]
  Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:20:03 -0800 (PST)
 Resent-From: icp@netscape.com
        Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:19:59 -0800
        From: tao@netscape.com (Tao Cheng)
  Organization: Netscape Communications Corp.
          To: icp@netscape.com

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All my opinions are mine; not Netscape's. 
  

Subject: [Fwd: Code for Bosnian language]
   Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 16:43:40 +0100
   From: "Adnan Selimovic" <aselimovic@internet.ba>
     To: tao@netscape.com


 Subject: Re: Code for Bosnian language
   Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:58:04 -0500 (EST)
   From: "Rebecca S. Guenther" <rgue@loc.gov>
     To: Adnan Selimovic <aselimovic@internet.ba>


The ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee met in February and approved the
addition of a language code for Bosnian.

ISO 639-2 code: bos
ISO 639-1 code: bs

I will be announcing it in a newsletter in the near future.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^  Rebecca S. Guenther                                   ^^
^^  Chair, ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee
^^  Network Development and MARC Standards Office         ^^
^^  1st and Independence Ave. SE                          ^^
^^  Library of Congress                                   ^^
^^  Washington, DC 20540-4402                             ^^
^^  (202) 707-5092 (voice)    (202) 707-0115 (FAX)        ^^
^^  rgue@loc.gov                                          ^^
^^                                                        ^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Adnan Selimovic wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sirs,
> > 
> > herewith, I would like to apply for the registration of the Bosnian
> > language in ISO 639-2. We found it very problematic working with Mozilla
> > Organization (http://www.mozilla.org/) on localization of their new
> > browser to Bosnian without having the code for the representation of the
> > Bosnian language being part of ISO 639.
> > 
> > The code for the representation of names of languages has become very
> > important for Internet. HTML standard has an attribute called lang. This
> > attribute is used in following situations by the browser:
> > 
> >      Assisting search engines
> >      Assisting speech synthesizers
> >      Helping a browser select glyph variants for high quality typography
> > 
> >      Helping a browser choose a set of question marks
> >      Helping a browser make decisions about hyphenation, ligatures, and
> > spacing
> >      Assisting spell checkers and grammar checkers
> > 
> > We are aware that Bosnian language has much in common with Croatian and
> > Serbian language, but in the past years these three languages have
> > suffered large number of changes. Especially the Croatian language is
> > being changed allot, so that others can't partly understand it. Serbs
> > write more or less everything using Cyrillic character set. Bosnian
> > language is not having the same treatment as other two languages and we
> > would like to correct this with our request for registration of the
> > language code.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > With kind regards,
> > 
> > Adnan Selimovic
> > 
> > QSS Ltd.
> > Ferde Hauptmana 7/c
> > 71000 Sarajevo
> > Bosnia and Hercegovina
> > 
> > WWW: http://www.qssbh.com/
> > Tel.: ++387 71/655-766
> > Fax: ++387 71/655-766

	bobj Reporter
	Comment 1 • 25 years ago

Depends upon enabling HTTP accept-language feature.

	bobj Reporter
	Comment 2 • 25 years ago

Reassigned to jbetak for Beta2.
Morphed bug into providing pref UI for accept-language similar to 4.x.

	bobj Reporter
	Comment 3 • 25 years ago

Backend support was fixed by bug 13380.
Only need UI to modify the prefs.

	bobj Reporter
	Comment 4 • 25 years ago

The required list of languages should be the same as 4.x with the addition of
Bosnian.  Any other additions should be added to this bug.

momoi, Do you still have the list of accept-languages that you created for 4.x?

	Katsuhiko Momoi
	Comment 5 • 25 years ago

Yes, I do but several other changes need to be made to it. 
Please look at the final Communicstor 4 List on this page:

http://warp/GApps/intl/

The link called "Accept-Language Additions List -- Final (Kat Momoi)"
is found under Commuicator 4/Dogbert section of the page.

What's the timeline on additions?

	jbetak@netscape.com (away - not reading bugmail) Assignee
	Comment 6 • 25 years ago

momoi-san, this is a great help. I plan to be finished by the end of the next 
week. It would be great, if the extensions could be finalized by then. Of 
course, as long as it happens before Beta2, that´s fine with me. From my 
perspective at least, it´s not hard to extend the list.

	bobj Reporter
	Comment 7 • 25 years ago

The link is http://warp/GApps/intl/ALaddfinal.html
Pls go ahead and implement whatever list we have by the end of this week.
As jbetak says, it should be easy to extend this list before Beta2 freeze.

	jbetak@netscape.com (away - not reading bugmail) Assignee
	Comment 8 • 25 years ago

*** Bug 6827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

	leger
	Comment 9 • 25 years ago

Putting on [nsbeta2+][5/16] radar.  This is a feature MUST complete work by 
05/16 or we may pull this feature for PR2.

	jbetak@netscape.com (away - not reading bugmail) Assignee
	Comment 10 • 25 years ago

just checked in - the pref window is in a bad shape right now, I'm taking some
shortcuts that need to be "polished up" once the pref window is reasonably
usable again.

	Teruko Kobayashi
	Comment 11 • 25 years ago

When selecting Language in preference, Netscape will crash-bug 16807. So, I 
cannot verify this until the bug is fixed.

	Teruko Kobayashi
	Comment 12 • 25 years ago

I verified this in 2000-06-08 Linux, Mac, and Win32 build.