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Re: Translation of "Israel" into Arabic in KDE
- To: Ivrix Discussions <ivrix-discuss(at-nospam)ivrix.org.il>
- Subject: Re: Translation of "Israel" into Arabic in KDE
- From: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 00:00:14 +0200
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il, kde-il(at-nospam)yahoogroups.com
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- Hebrew-Date: 19 Tishri 5762
- In-Reply-To: <3BBDC32C.4F201692@kde.org>; from livne@kde.org on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:26:52PM +0200
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001, Meni Livne wrote about "Translation of "Israel" into Arabic in KDE":
> To sum it up, the string "Israel" which is used in the
> country list in the KDE Control Center was translated
> into Arabic "falastin almuhtala", or "occupied Palestine".
This is not really a hebrew issue, so I'm not sure ivrix-discuss is a
proper mailing-list for this, but I guess the rest (linux-il and kde-il) are.
> I complained to the KDE i18n maintainer, and you can
I think the issue is pretty simple: the UN has an official list of countries,
which, like it or not, contains both Israel and Palestine. This list of
countries is also used to determine which "country" can get a ccTLD (country
code top level domain, like our ".il") so in the last couple of years there
was an interesting phenomenenon of several tiny countries who never joined
the UN because of the costs, joined it now with the money it got as an
advance from a company which is to run this country's domain name (I believe
".tv" was such a country).
Anyway, the only sensible thing for the KDE maintainer is to refuse
politically-controveritial "countries" that don't exist in the UN's list.
No "Occupied Palestine" (but yes to a "Palestine" and "Israel"), no "Muslim
Republic of Kashmir", no "Iraqi province of Kwait", and so on. Even the whole
Taiwan/China mess has official names in the UN's lists, if I remember
correctly.
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