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Thank you for your input, Alam.
Then we use "pa" for Punjabi (Gurmukhi).
Blueprint is updated.

Best regards
Ying Chun Guo (Daisy)


Alam <apreet.alam at gmail.com> wrote on 2015/11/13 10:17:30:

> From: Alam <apreet.alam at gmail.com>
> To: Ying Chun Guo/China/IBM at IBMCN, Openstack-i18n <openstack-
> i18n at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 2015/11/13 10:17
> Subject: Re: [Openstack-i18n] Rename the language code of Punjabi
>
> On 12/11/15 12:16 AM, Ying Chun Guo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > According to previous discussion[1], it seems like pa-IN is
meaningless.
> > "Punjabi has two entirely different scripts i.e. Gurmukhi (ਪੈਂਤੀ) and
> > Shahmukhi (اردو),
> > while former is widely used in Indian side of Punjab aka Eastern Punjab
the
> > latter is used in Pakistani side of Punjab aka Western Punjab."
> > The translations of pa-IN are mixing of two kinds of characters.
> > So I think we should rename pa-IN to pa-Guru, in order to avoid
confusing.
> > I see Alam prefer to use "pa", not "pa-Guru". [2]
> > But I think pa-Guru is more clear than pa.
> > @Alam and Amandeep, correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
>
> pa-guru may be more clear, but 'pa' is well-accepted by all major
> projects for Punjabi (Gurmukhi) including CLDR [1] and wikipedia [2].
>
> ISO code 639-1 defined Punjabi as 'pa'.
> if need to add Punjabi (Shahmukhi), then we can use
> ISO code 639-3 [1] 'pnb' as Wikipedia did (3-letter code is already used
> in project).
>
> by add 'pa-guru', we may start a new code, which is nowhere in any
> project and can increase complexity.
>
> Please share your thoughts about this.
>
> thanks
>
> --
> A S Alam
>
> [1] http://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/pa/
> [2] https://pa.wikipedia.org/
> [3] http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/iso-639-3_Name_Index_20090210.tab
>
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