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Contributing roles in the Internationalization (I18N) Project
Contributing roles
These are only suggestions for contributing roles. Only your imagination sets the limits.
These are only suggestions for contributing roles. Only your imagination sets the limits.
The Fedora Internationalization (I18N) Project
The Fedora I18N project works on internationalization (i18n) to support the localization (l10n) of Fedora in many languages.
Translation of Fedora software and documentation are handled by the Fedora L10N project .
The goals of the Project are to:
- Develop, package, and maintain applications like input methods for different languages
- Improve applications and utilities to support and process different languages
- Quality-assure that existing applications meet i18n standards
- Support the infrastructure of the Fedora Localization Project
Joining the Fedora Internationalization Project
- To learn how to join Fedora Internationalization Project, please refer to the Join page.
Communication
Mailing Lists
IRC channel
#fedora-i18n[?] on freenode.net
Meetings
- See our Meetings page.
Tasks
- kbd/im desktop integration
- scm/koji commit mails to i18n-bugs
- update remaining fonts to current guidelines
- Unicode 5.2 and 6.0
Wishlist
- libIMdkit
- (gdm locale/kbd UI improvements)
Packages
Fedora I18n maintains a lot of Fedora packages related to i18n. There is a FAS pseudo-user i18n-team to help track our bugs.
For new approved i18n packages please use "InitialCC: i18n-team" in your CVSAdmin request.
Technologies
Input Methods
Input Methods are used to input Asian and other languages.
Fonts
- See I18N/Fonts for Asian fonts in Fedora
- there are many free/libre international fonts, already referenced in fontconfig defaults or packaged by other major distributions, languishing in the Fedora wishlist in wait for a packager.
- Lohit Project. The Lohit fonts are a family of Indic fonts licensed under GPL.
- Liberation Project The Liberation fonts are a family of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic fonts licensed under a free/libre license.
Pango language order
The language priority order that pango uses to render text can be set with the environment variable
The language priority order that pango uses to render text can be set with the environment variable
PANGO_LANGUAGE. For example setting PANGO_LANGUAGE to "ja:zh:ko" would prefer Japanese fonts, then Chinese and then Korean.
Fonts in Fedora
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.
Adding Language Support
Minimum Criteria For Language Support (I18N)
See the page Language Support Criteria for the process (steps) for adding i18n support for a new language to Fedora.
How to Install/Remove Language Support
To install any language support in your Fedora Desktop you need to use following command
yum groupinstall <language_name>-support yum langinstall <locale_code>
e.g. to install Hindi language support use
yum groupinstall hindi-support yum langinstall hi_IN
To remove any language support in your Fedora Desktop you need to use following command
yum groupremove <language_name>-support yum langremove <locale_code>
e.g. to remove Hindi language support use
yum groupremove hindi-support yum langremove hi_IN
| Country | yum language group | locale code |
| Afrikaans(SouthAfrica) | af_ZA | |
| Albanian | sq_AL | |
| Arabic(Algeria) | arabic-support | ar_DZ |
| Arabic(Bahrain) | arabic-support | ar_BH |
| Arabic(Egypt) | arabic-support | ar_EG |
| Arabic(India) | arabic-support | ar_IN |
| Arabic(Iraq) | arabic-support | ar_IQ |
| Arabic(Jordan) | arabic-support | ar_JO |
| Arabic(Kuwait) | arabic-support | ar_KW |
| Arabic(Lebanon) | arabic-support | ar_LB |
| Arabic(LibyanArabJamahiriya) | arabic-support | ar_LY |
| Arabic(Morocco) | arabic-support | ar_MA |
| Arabic(Oman) | arabic-support | ar_OM |
| Arabic(Qatar) | arabic-support | ar_QA |
| Arabic(SaudiArabia) | arabic-support | ar_SA |
| Arabic(Sudan) | arabic-support | ar_SD |
| Arabic(SyrianArabRepublic) | arabic-support | ar_SY |
| Arabic(Tunisia) | arabic-support | ar_TN |
| Arabic(UnitedArabEmirates) | arabic-support | ar_AE |
| Arabic(Yemen) | arabic-support | ar_YE |
| Assamese(India) | assamese-support | as_IN |
| Asturian(Spain) | ast_ES | |
| Basque(Spain) | eu_ES | |
| Belarusian | be_BY | |
| Bengali(BD) | bengali-support | bn_BD |
| Bengali(India) | bengali-support | bn_IN |
| Bosnian(BosniaandHerzegowina) | bs_BA | |
| Breton(France) | br_FR | |
| Bulgarian-Български | bg_BG | |
| Catalan(Spain) | ca_ES | |
| Chinese(HongKong) | zh_HK | |
| Chinese(P.R.ofChina)-中文(简体) | simplified-chinese-support | zh_CN |
| Chinese(Taiwan)-傳統漢語 | traditional-chinese-support | zh_TW |
| Cornish(Britain) | kw_GB | |
| Croatian | hr_HR | |
| Czech-Českárepublika | cs_CZ | |
| Danish-Dansk | da_DK | |
| Dutch(Belgium) | nl_BE | |
| Dutch(Netherlands) | nl_NL | |
| English(Australia) | en_AU | |
| English(Botswana) | en_BW | |
| English(Canada) | en_CA | |
| English(Denmark) | en_DK | |
| English(GreatBritain) | en_GB | |
| English(HongKong) | en_HK | |
| English(India) | en_IN | |
| English(Ireland) | en_IE | |
| English(NewZealand) | en_NZ | |
| English(Philippines) | en_PH | |
| English(Singapore) | en_SG | |
| English(SouthAfrica) | en_ZA | |
| English(USA) | en_US | |
| English(Zimbabwe) | en_ZW | |
| Estonian | et_EE | |
| Faroese(FaroeIslands) | fo_FO | |
| Finnish | finnish-support | fi_FI |
| French(Belgium) | fr_BE | |
| French(Canada) | fr_CA | |
| French(France)-Français | fr_FR | |
| French(Luxemburg) | fr_LU | |
| French(Switzerland) | fr_CH | |
| Galician(Spain) | gl_ES | |
| German(Austria) | de_AT | |
| German(Belgium) | de_BE | |
| German(Germany)-Deutsch | de_DE | |
| LowGerman(Germany)-Deutsch | nds_DE | |
| German(Luxemburg) | de_LU | |
| German(Switzerland) | de_CH | |
| Greek | greek-support | el_GR |
| Greenlandic(Greenland) | kl_GL | |
| Gujarati(India) | gujarati-support | gu_IN |
| Hebrew(Israel) | hebrew-support | he_IL |
| Hindi(India) | hindi-support | hi_IN |
| Hungarian | hu_HU | |
| Icelandic-Íslenska | is_IS | |
| Indonesian | id_ID | |
| Irish | ga_IE | |
| Italian(Italy)Italiano | it_IT | |
| Italian(Switzerland) | it_CH | |
| Japanese-日本語 | japanese-support | ja_JP |
| Kannada(India) | kannada-support | kn_IN |
| Kashmiri(India) | kashmiri-support | ks_IN |
| Korean(RepublicofKorea)-한국어 | korean-support | ko_KR |
| Lao(Laos) | lo_LA | |
| Latvian(Latvia) | lv_LV | |
| Lithuanian | lt_LT | |
| Macedonian | mk_MK | |
| Maithili(India) | maithili-support | mai_IN |
| Malayalam(India) | malayalam-support | ml_IN |
| Malay(Malaysia) | ms_MY | |
| Maltese(malta) | mt_MT | |
| ManxGaelic(Britain) | gv_GB | |
| Marathi(India) | marathi-support | mr_IN |
| NorthernSaami(Norway) | se_NO | |
| Nepali(Nepal) | nepali-support | ne_NP |
| Norwegian-Norsk | nb_NO | |
| Norwegian,Nynorsk(Norway)-Norsk | nn_NO | |
| Occitan(France) | oc_FR | |
| Oriya(India) | oriya-support | or_IN |
| Persian(Iran) | persian-support | fa_IR |
| Polish | pl_PL | |
| Portuguese(Brasil) | pt_BR | |
| Portuguese(Portugal)-Português | pt_PT | |
| Punjabi(India) | punjabi-support | pa_IN |
| Romanian | ro_RO | |
| Russian-Русский | russian-support | ru_RU |
| Russian(Ukraine) | russian-support | ru_UA |
| Serbian | sr_RS | |
| Serbian(Latin) | sr_RS.UTF-8@latin | |
| Sinhala | sinhala-support | si_LK |
| Slovak | sk_SK | |
| Slovenian(Slovenia)-slovenščina | sl_SI | |
| Spanish(Argentina) | es_AR | |
| Spanish(Bolivia) | es_BO | |
| Spanish(Chile) | es_CL | |
| Spanish(Colombia) | es_CO | |
| Spanish(CostaRica) | es_CR | |
| Spanish(DominicanRepublic) | es_DO | |
| Spanish(ElSalvador) | es_SV | |
| Spanish(Equador) | es_EC | |
| Spanish(Guatemala) | es_GT | |
| Spanish(Honduras) | es_HN | |
| Spanish(Mexico) | es_MX | |
| Spanish(Nicaragua) | es_NI | |
| Spanish(Panama) | es_PA | |
| Spanish(Paraguay) | es_PY | |
| Spanish(Peru) | es_PE | |
| Spanish(PuertoRico) | es_PR | |
| Spanish(Spain)-Español | es_ES | |
| Spanish(USA) | es_US | |
| Spanish(Uruguay) | es_UY | |
| Spanish(Venezuela) | es_VE | |
| Swedish(Finland) | sv_FI | |
| Swedish(Sweden)-Svenska | sv_SE | |
| Tagalog(Philippines) | tl_PH | |
| Tamil(India) | tamil-support | ta_IN |
| Telugu(India) | telugu-support | te_IN |
| Thai | thai-support | th_TH |
| Turkish | tr_TR | |
| Ukrainian | uk_UA | |
| Urdu(Pakistan) | urdu-support | ur_PK |
| Uzbek(Uzbekistan) | uz_UZ | |
| Walloon(Belgium) | wa_BE@euro | |
| Welsh(GreatBritain) | cy_GB | |
| Xhosa(SouthAfrica) | xh_ZA | |
| Zulu(SouthAfrica) | zu_ZA |
Reporting Bugs
Before you file a bug, please read through the list of current and previous bugs for the corresponding software package to determine if your bug has already been filed. If your bug does not exist, enter a bug report using the Bugzilla bug entry page . If your bug exists and has not been fixed, add additional information to the existing bug. If your bug exists and has been fixed, upgrade to the version in the bug report to determine if the bug was properly fixed. If it was not, reopen the bug.
See the I18n Bugs page for I18n related Bugzilla queries.
See the I18N Bugs Guidelines for reporting bugs.
People
- Agustin Ferrario (Pycrash)
- Akira TAGOH
- Anish Patil
- Jens Petersen
- Caius 'kaio' Chance
- Ding-Yi Chen
- Parag Nemade
- Pravin Satpute
- Naveen Kumar
- Dan Mashal
- Ryo Dairiki
- Peng Huang
- Dimitris Glezos
- Lawrence Lim - <llim AT redhat.com>
- Rahul Bhalerao
- Yu Shao - <yshao AT redhat.com>
- Zheng Hua
- A S Alam
- Satyabrata Maitra
- NayyarAhmad
- MostafaDaneshvar
- Gao Hu
- Takao Fujiwara
- Peng Wu
- Anson Cheung
- Constantin DRABO
- Lijun Li - <lijli AT redhat.com>
- Mike FABIAN
- Eduardo Mayorga Téllez
- Daiki Ueno