Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 96643
Wrong languange and currency for Singapore
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:13:46 UTC
I'm an occasional user of OpenOffice and it has been quite a while. Most of the time, I do not bother to check on the Languages etc as I just use the default. It's only today I decided to open up and set the default currency to my local currency. To my surprise, for Singapore currency it is indicated as SGD S$ Chinese (Singapore) The correct definition should be just SGD S$ (Singapore) or you could use SGD S$ (Singapore Dollar) Since when did Singapore belongs to the Chinese? Whose idea of sick joke to include the word Chinese in Singapore currency? For those of you who do not know about Singapore or it's history. Let me tell you a brief history about Singapore. Singapore lies in the Malay Archipelago which consist of at least the following a) Malaysia b) Indonesia c) Brunei d) Philippines e) Borneo f) Sumatra etc When the British India Company led by Stamford Raffles came to South East Asia looking for a new base for their colonisation, they so call "founded" Singapore. It's an island to the South of Malaya which is now called Malaysia. The island main habitants are the Malay. During these period the British open up the port of Singapore for trading. Then come the immigrants from a) China b) India c) Middle East etc Over the next few years the number of immigrants increased by leap and bound. The Malay majority was soon over taken by the Chinese. However be reminded this DOES NOT MAKE THE ISLAND TO BE CLASSIFIED AS CHINESE! Being a majority does not give the right to put the word Chinese for Singapore Currency. Malaya which included Singapore became independence from the British on the 31st August 1957. Malaya was renamed Malaysia. Due to political differences etc Singapore gained independence from Malaysia on the 09th August 1965. The National Language of Singapore remains as Malay up to this day. English is the official Business Language. The National Anthem of Singapore is Majulah Singapura which is sang in Malay. The drill command is given in the Malay language. So whose sick idea is it to indicate under currency as Chinese Singapore? Why is there a need to put Chinese before the word Singapore? This is nothing more than a racial discrimination or somebody trying to mislead the whole world as if Singapore is in China or the Chinese as the local inhabitant of the island all throughout history! You can check in the wikipedia. The actual inhabitant are actually Malay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore To the correct Person in Charge. Kindly correct the mistake which has been made in OpenOffice. Don't let somebody with the intend of misleading other people take advantage and misused the whole situation. For your immediate action. Thanking you in advance for the assistance to correct what is wrong.
SBA: This is not a P1 issue. Set Prio to P3. Please read http://qa.openoffice.org/scdocs/ddIssues_EnterModify.html#priority Please do not use this issue tracker as a forum for political statements and speculation. It is dedicated to serve as a tool for communication of technical aspects of developing OpenOffice.org. I therefore reduce the summary to a meaningful technical summarization of your findings. Change component to L10N. Issues in office code or locale data are issues that do occur in software as issues (defects) in software do occur. There is no bug-free software of this size on this planet and there will never be. Thank you for your comprehension. SBA->ER: Please proceed, thank you.
Reassigned to ER.
Please note that the currency list box is accumulated from available locale data, the wording "Chinese (Singapore)" originates from the locale data for zh-SG. This in itself is correct, meaning locale data for the language Chinese in the region of Singapore, and cannot be changed. Changing implementation of the currency list box is beyond the scope of this issue. However, we can add another locale "Malay (Singapore)", which of the many Malay languages would that be? See http://sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=reference_name&letter=m so we can use the correct ISO 639-3 code. To be able to fully support it as a locale, including number formats and calendar data, and having it selectable as default document language we would need a locale data file. Locale data files can quite easily be generated with the generator available at http://www.it46.se/localegen/ For technical details and semantics of elements please see the generator's documentation and the comments in the locale data DTD file http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/trunk/i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd and as a sample locale data file for example the en_US locale http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/trunk/i18npool/source/localedata/data/en_US.xml If you want to create and contribute a locale data file for this locale, you can do so using the generator, and then tell here in this issue that it is available. I would then contact Alberto, whom you granted the right to contribute your data, see http://www.it46.se/localegen/copyright.php Thanks Eike
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