Arabic locale for Openoffice.org
by
Mohamed Kebdani: med.kebdani AT gmail (.) com

Fri, July 11, 2008



The inventory of fixtures,
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 List of countries omitted in Openoffice.org, where Arabic is an official language,
 [l10n] / i18npool / source / isolang / isolang.cxx:

 Ref1: http://l10n.openoffice.org/source/browse/l10n/i18npool/source/isolang/isolang.cxx?rev=1.16&view=markup
 Ref2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_Arabic_is_an_official_language

    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_COMOROS,              "ar", "KM" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_CHAD,              "ar", "TD" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_DJIBOUTI,              "ar", "DJ" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_MAURITANIA,              "ar", "MR" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_PALESTINE,              "ar", "PS" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_SOMALIA,              "ar", "SO" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_SUDAN,              "ar", "SD" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_ISRAEL,              "ar", "IL" },
    { LANGUAGE_ARABIC_ERITREA,              "ar", "ER" },

 N.B: Sudan is listed out in isolang.cxx with the notice: // unknown MS-LCID

 Bug reprt, see: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=90867

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 List of Arabic locale for countries, using Arabic language as official and first one, witch have Locale ID (LCID) Values as Assigned by Microsoft and listed in Openoffice.org project:

    Ref3: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/lcid-all.mspx
    Ref4: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/winxp/xp-lcid.mspx
    Ref5: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776294.aspx
    Ref6: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/lcid-all.mspx
    Ref7: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q221435

 
    Ref8: http://l10n.openoffice.org/source/browse/l10n/i18npool/source/localedata/data/

 
Locales listed in OpenOffice.org:
Language CountryLCIDCurrent locales (Sise)New locales (suggested)Major changes
Arabic Egypt
Arabic Lebanon
Arabic Tunisia
Arabic Saudi Arabia		3073 (&HC01)
12289 (&H3001)
7169 (&H1C01)
1025 (&H401)		ar_EG.xml (26,9 Kio)
ar_LB.xml (09,9 Kio)
ar-TN.xml (09,8 Kio)
ar_SA.xml (09,9 Kio)		ar_EG.xml (27,3 Kio)
ar_LB.xml (09,1 Kio)
ar-TN.xml (10,1 Kio)
ar_SA.xml (01,0 Kio)		Date-Time: RTL direct., add iso format, insert spaces and few corrections.
Few corrections.
New <LC_CTYPE> and <LC_FORMAT> (Without Eastern Arabic numerals).
Reference = EG
Total: 56,5 KioTotal: 47,5 Kio


Locales omitted in OpenOffice.org, with LCDI values:
Language CountryLCIDLocales suggested (Size)Changes
Arabic1025 (&H401)//
Arabic Algeria5121 (&H1401)ar_DZ.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_TN
Arabic Bahrain15361 (&H3C01)ar_BH.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_EG
Arabic Iraq 2049 (&H801)ar_IQ.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_LB
Arabic Jordan11265 (&H2C01)ar_JO.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_LB
Arabic Kuwait13313 (&H3401)ar_KW.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_EG
Arabic Libya4097 (&H1001)ar_LY.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_EG
Arabic Morocco6145 (&H1801)ar_MA.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_TN
Arabic Oman8193 (&H2001)ar_OM.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_EG
Arabic Qatar16385 (&H4001)ar_QA.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_EG
Arabic Syria10241 (&H2801)ar_SY.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_LB
Arabic U.A.E14337 (&H3801)ar_AE.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_EG
Arabic Yemen9217 (&H2401)ar_YE.xml (01,0 Kio)ref=ar_EG
Total12,0 Kio

 

 Locales omitted, using Arabic language as official and first one, without LCDI values:
 OpenOffice project should assign a number for them??
Language CountryLCIDLocales suggested (Size)Changes
Arabic Mauritania???? (&H????)ar_MR.xmlref=ar_TN
Arabic Somalia???? (&H????)ar_SO.xmlref=ar_EG
Arabic Sudan???? (&H????)ar_SD.xmlref=ar_EG
Arabic Djibouti ???? (&H????)ar_DJ.xmlref=ar_TN
Arabic Comoros ???? (&H????) ar_KM.xmlref=ar_TN
Total05,0 Kio