Frisian is not Western Frisian or 'West Fries'

[Sense Egbert Hofstede]

In many packages the Frisian language as spoken in the Dutch province of Friesland is often called West-Frisian or Western Frisian. This causes confusion: there is a group of dialects in the province of North-Holland -- which has got an area that's called West-Friesland -- under the name West-Frisian and most Frisians call their language Frisian (or 'Frysk' and 'Fries' in Frisian and Dutch).

The Dutch translation should most certainly use 'Fries' instead of 'West-Fries' since the current translation makes the language hard to find in the 'Language Settings' dialogue -- virtually no one uses the name 'West-Fries'.

In English I understand that 'Western Frisian' is used in order to prevent confusion with the German dialect 'Ost Fries'. But in Dutch I would recommend to use just plain 'Fries'.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

The language names and their translations come from the iso-codes (https://translations.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/iso-codes/+pots/iso-639) package. However, translations for that package need to be done upstream (http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/), the translations in launchpad won't be used.

[Eleanor Chen (chenyueg)]

Dutch team please have a look, and see whether contacting upstream is needed.

[Dooitze de Jong (dooitze)]

There has to be contact with the upstream of Gnome, XFCE and KDE. I'll send a message to Wouter Bolderstee

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Assigning this bug back to the Dutch translation team as it is not an issue the Frisian translations can do anything for.

[wouter bolsterlee (wbolster)]

I've followed up on the e-mail Dooitze has sent me. The summary is that I agree and asked the maintainer of the package to change the translation. The Gnome-NL mailing list and the Dutch translation project mailing lists have received CC's of my reply as well.

[wouter bolsterlee (wbolster)]

Good news: the upstream translation has been changed by the upstream translator for the iso-codes project.

Not sure when this change propagates to distributions though…

[Benno Schulenberg (bennoschulenberg)]

The change can be made in Launchpad, too, of course in anticipation of a new iso-codes release and its import into Ubuntu. I'm not a team member, so can only make suggestions:

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/iso-codes/+pots/iso-639/nl/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=western+frisian

[Kenneth Venken (kenneth-venken)]

I reviewed and accepted your translation.