Create CLDR locale for Votic

[kristiank]

Create a CLDR locale for Votic (vot). CLDR is widely used in operating systems and other multilingual applications to provide basic language support. In some cases, specific localisation is impossible without being in CLDR.

See information adding new locales for more information.

[kristiank]

• 0. Administrative / Locale Identifier
  • 0.a) Requester's Name and Email address:
  • 0.b) Locale name:
    Vad̕d̕a čeeli
  • 0.c) Locale identifier(s) (include scripts and territories):
    vot, vot_RU
• 1. Exemplar Sets
  • 1.a) Main: The minimal characters required for your language (other than punctuation)
    õ ö e r t ü u i o p ä š a s d f g h j k l z ž č v b n m ä š p̕ f̕ v̕ t̕ d̕ n̕ s̕ z̕ l̕ r̕ š̕ h̕
    Õ Ö E R T Ü U I O P Ä Š A S D F G H J K L Z Ž Č V B N M Ä Š P̕ F̕ V̕ T̕ D̕ N̕ S̕ Z̕ L̕ R̕ Š̕ H̕
    U+0315 Combining Comma Above
  • 1.b) Auxiliary: Additional letters and punctuation (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, &c.
  • 1.c) Index: The “shortcut” letters for quickly jumping to sections of a sorted, indexed list (for an example, see mu.edu).
  • 1.d) Punctuation: The punctuation characters customarily used with your language.
    . , ? ! ; : - « » ( )
• 2. Orientation
  • 2.a) Characters: Which direction are characters written in the language?
    left-to-right
  • 2.b) Lines: Which direction are lines written in the language?
    top-to-bottom
• 3. Plural Rules
  • 3.a) What are the plural rules for this language?
    like Finnish
• 4. Country Data and Default Content
  • 4.a) Is the data in http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/language_territory_information.html correct for the language and territory? If not, please provide correct data:
  • 4.b) What should the default content locale be for the language? For example, German, Germany (de_DE) is the default content for German (de). This is usually the country with largest population using that language, and the normal script for that country's use of that language:
    vot_RU
• 5. Romanization (for non-Latin scripts only)
  • 5.a) What is the Romanization table for transforming the script into Latin?

[flammie]

hi sorry for the delay, I went away on holiday after the conference, I can generate new templates for filling in translations this week with experiences of past attempts of working with stuff. Did you file a bug on unicode's tracker? I think this is good to do early on, it just makes it so the language code is in the system for uploading more data when the next upload phase opens.

[kristiank]

This would be great! I will fill a bug on Unicode today.

@flammie do you know if anyone is working on izh with this? I might try do both in tandem ...

[kristiank]

@flammie while we are at it, do you have had any experience with alternative character in unset orthographies. I'm thinking of Votic ü-y and č-c. I wouldn't like to enforce one of them but include both. I don't see the same problem with multi-letter alternative spellings (like tš instead of č) because their usage is easier to enforce by different motivations (like any compound that introduces a tš is not to be collated as č).