Adding Thai Locale

[Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]

Package: localechooser-data
Version: 0.27ubuntu10
Severity: wishlist

As discussed in localisation sprint, please find below
the proposed patch to add Thai locale.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers dapper-updates
 APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-18-386
Locale: LANG=th_TH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=th_TH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

diff -Nuar localechooser-0.27ubuntu10/languagelist localechooser-0.27ubuntu10-thai/languagelist
--- localechooser-0.27ubuntu10/languagelist 2006-03-15 10:34:37.000000000 +0000
+++ localechooser-0.27ubuntu10-thai/languagelist 2006-03-15 10:34:42.000000000 +0000
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 Swedish;1;sv;sv_SE.UTF-8;sv;SE;sv_SE:sv:en_GB:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(utf8)
 Tagalog;1;tl;tl_PH.UTF-8;tl;PH;tl_PH:tl:en_US:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(utf8)
 # Tamil;3;ta_IN;ta_IN;ta;IN;ta_IN:ta:en_IN:en_GB:en;
+Thai;1;th_TH.UTF-8;th_TH.UTF-8;th;TH;th_TH.UTF-8:th_TH:th;th-tis(utf8)
 Turkish;2;tr_TR.UTF-8;tr_TR.UTF-8;tr;TR;tr_TR:tr:en_GB:en;kbd=ter-v16f(utf8)
 Ukrainian;2;uk_UA.UTF-8;uk_UA.UTF-8;uk;UA;uk_UA:uk:en_GB:en;kbd=ruscii_8x16(utf8)
 Vietnamese;2;vi_VN.UTF-8;vi_VN.UTF-8;vi;VN;vi_VN:vi:en_GB:en;
diff -Nuar localechooser-0.27ubuntu10/languagelist.l10n localechooser-0.27ubuntu10-thai/languagelist.l10n
--- localechooser-0.27ubuntu10/languagelist.l10n 2006-03-15 10:34:58.000000000 +0000
+++ localechooser-0.27ubuntu10-thai/languagelist.l10n 2006-03-15 10:35:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 Swedish: Svenska
 Tagalog: Tagalog
 Tamil: தமிழ்
+Thai: ภาษาไทย
 Turkish: Türkçe
 Ukrainian: Українська
 Vietnamese: Tiếng Việt

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixed, thanks, although I used a slightly different line in languagelist to match the usual format of that file:

Thai;1;th_TH.UTF-8;th_TH.UTF-8;th;TH;th_TH:th;kbd=th-tis(utf8)

localechooser (0.27ubuntu12) dapper; urgency=low

  * Update Portuguese translation from Rosetta.
  * Add Thai (thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan; closes: Malone #35022).
  * Allow country selection for Catalan (thanks, Robert Millan; closes:
    Malone #37007).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sat, 1 Apr 2006 21:15:32 +0100

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I've just realised that "kbd=th-tis(utf8)". I know the format is not very obvious, but instead of "th-tis" there we're supposed to have the name of a console font, for example "tis-phaisarn.f16".

This means that I need some advice on what would be an appropriate default console font for Thai users. I had a look through the console fonts supplied in bug 35340: tis-phaisarn.f16 is the closest in appearance for ASCII characters to our regular console font, and so on the face of it seems like a good default choice, but I'm not well-placed to judge how readable its Thai glyphs are.

Could one of you let me know what I should do here? Thanks in advance.

[Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (thep)]

On 4/13/06, Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote:
> I've just realised that "kbd=th-tis(utf8)". I know the format is not very obvious, but instead of "th-tis" there we're supposed to have the name of a console font, for example "tis-phaisarn.f16".
>
> This means that I need some advice on what would be an appropriate default console font for Thai users. I had a look through the console fonts supplied in bug 35340: tis-phaisarn.f16 is the closest in appearance for ASCII characters to our regular console font, and so on the face of it seems like a good default choice, but I'm not well-placed to judge how readable its Thai glyphs are.
>
> Could one of you let me know what I should do here? Thanks in advance.

th-phaisarn.f16 is also my font of choice. Let's use it as the default.

Thank you for handling the bug.

>
> ** Changed in: localechooser (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
> --
> Adding Thai Locale
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35022
>

Regards,
-Thep.
--
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
http://linux.thai.net/~thep/

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

OK, thanks. Done.

localechooser (0.27ubuntu16) dapper; urgency=low

  * Set Thai console font to tis-phaisarn.f16 (closes: Malone #35022).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:14:39 +0100