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= References =

* http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=119528
* http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=347173
* http://debian-l10n-ro.alioth.debian.org/random-bits/Romanian%20diacritics.txt
* The Diacritice list

Abstract

In order to be able to localize (translate, display dates, display addresses, display/use the ISBN code, choose the right paper format, etc. ...) a software in Romanian properly, a software developer of an application must understand the issues that affect the Romanian language and common mistakes and misconceptions about this language.

This page is intended as a guide to software developers which want to introduce proper support for Romanian in thier applications, but are confused about what needs to be done to accomplish that.

THIS PAGE IS INCOMPLETE AT THE MOMENT. PLEASE CONTACT THE UNIFIED ROMANIAN TRANSLATION TEAM IF YOUR QUESTION IS NOT ANSWERED YET, OR NOT LISTED AT ALL: diacritice AT_SIGN googlegroups.com

Common mistakes, usual questions

Here is a list of common problems/questions in relation to localization (abbrev. l10n, from now on) into Romanian:

  • Which is the right 8 bit code page for Romanian? Which encodings really support Romanian?
  • Which extra (in relation to usual western-european codepoints) unicode codepoints are needed for Romanian?
  • What is the s/S/t/T comma/cedilla madness?
  • Although I know I have support for encodings that support Romanian, my applications doesn't look right in Romanian. Why?
  • Isn't Romanian a slavic/non-latin language?
  • Which are he right quotation marks used in Romanian?
  • Which are the abbreviations used for the week day names? Which is considered the first day of week in Romania? Which is the first working day of the week?
  • Which is the proper date format in Romanian?
  • I have a new application and I don't care about compatibility issues, but I want to support Romanian. What should I do?
  • Somebody contacted me and told me to change a lot of things in my application in order to support Romanian. He proposed a lot of changes, but I am not sure about them. Where can I get more information about the proposed changes?

References

* http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=119528 * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=347173 * http://debian-l10n-ro.alioth.debian.org/random-bits/Romanian%20diacritics.txt * The Diacritice list