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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Region Of =?utf-8?q?T=C3=BCrkiye?=
From:       Görkem Çetin <gorkem () gorkemcetin ! com>
Date:       2005-05-30 5:53:57
Message-ID: 429AAA75.5010101 () gorkemcetin ! com
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Hi

There has been a ongoing argue for years whether 
Turkey is a European or an Asian country, since some 
part of Turkey geographically fits in Europe (where
I live, also) and the remaining in Asia, just 
like Russia. Besides, Turkey is represented in both 
European and Asian economical, political and 
administrative foundations. 

What I've observed from my past experieces is that,
KDE users tend to seek "Turkey" in southern Europe
while defining their territory in KDE and not
in *Asia or Middle East. It was so before KDE 3.1, 
and somehow changed after 3.1. Often, they 
desperately had to seek for some time until they 
click the Middle East button. I occasionally get 
complaints about this problem.

In fact it's a bit of an issue about what people 
feel they mostly like to see themselves on the 
world ;-)

So as Allan points out, I'd like to propose to 
change the region information for Turkey from Middle 
East to South Europe. Please let me know how to 
proceed (i.e enter a bug report, etc).

Best wishes
Görkem
KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice.org, Fedora Linux Turkish 
localization team leader


-------- Yönlendirilmiş İleti --------
Gönderen: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde@carewolf.com>
Alıcı: kde-devel@kde.org, caglar@uludag.org.tr
Konu: Re: Region Of Türkiye
Tarih: Sun, 29 May 2005 20:14:44 +0200

On Sunday 29 May 2005 03:21, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:

>> Hi;
>>
>> In KDE, Türkiye defined in middleeast region ( l10n/tr/entry.desktop,
>> Region=middleeast ) which is not correct. It's lying partly in Asia and
>> partly in Europe.
>>
>> So if you accept, i want to suggest changing the region of Türkiye to
>> Europe where the area Turkish people belongs.
>>
>  
>
It was placed there because it seemed the most natural to me, although you 
argueably could rename middleeast to western asia. The alternative was to put 
it in southern europe. As with country names I think we should let the 
translation team get the final word.

 
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