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Re: [BZ #13951] Fix country_name of dz_BT


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 02:29:25PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
>>> > +% àààààà
>>> > +country_name "<U0F60><U0F56><U0FB2><U0F74><U0F42><U0F0D>"
>>>
>>> According to wikipedia the official name for Bhutan is àààààààààà not àààààà.
>>>
>>> Notice the similarity between the names? It makes me think that the
>>> country_name here is a short form, but I'd like to have that confirmed
>>> and I'd like to see the English phonetic version in brackets to
>>> assist future non-native speakers.
>>>
>>> Can you confirm with the original submitter what is actually being
>>> described here?
>>
>> I agree some native speakers should be consulted, but I suspect àààààà
>> should be used.
>
> What about the difference between à (<U0F0D>) and à (<U0F0B>)?

I noticed that too, worse on the Bhutan government website uses
neither <U0F0D> or <U0F0B> are used in the official name.

e.g. http://www.bhutan.gov.bt/government/images/centenary.GIF

Cheers,
Carlos.


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