Serbian (Latin)

  • It is indisputable fact that vast majority of websites in Serbia, and their visitors prefer Latin over Cyrillic. We are speaking for over 90% of cases!

    Why can’t we just have Serbian (Latin) as option in native wordpress setup?

    The plugins that are used for that (Transliteration etc) are unreliable, slowing down everything and making life more difficult.

    What does it need to happen so that this becomes acknowledged? And why are we denying these facts for so long?

    Thank you.

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  • Hi @markez123,

    Actually, it seems this is already known since there is a translation team dedicated to Serbian (Latin) in addition to Cyrillic Serbian. However, it appears that no translation has ever been released indeed. This is likely because there are not enough volunteers to complete the translation. Fortunately, you can help! ??

    I suggest that you visit the page dedicated to Serbian (Latin) translation to reach out to the people involved and perhaps make this happen.

    Have a nice day.

    Thread Starter markez123

    (@markez123)

    Hi @luk4

    Thank you for the reply. And thank you very much for the two links you provided ??. I am glad to see that someone was working on this but there are plenty things I can’t understand:

    1. They are literally exactly the same team members on both sides: Latin and Cyrillic.
    2. I am sure that each one of them prefers Latin alphabet over the Cyrillic one ??.
    3. Since the translation in Cyrillic already exist, there is no need to translate it again in Latin because its absolutely the same. Just needs to replace it with Latin alphabet instead of cyrillic one, and this can be done with a few lines of code, in 3 minutes. It can even be automated somewhere in their workflow.

    I would like to encourage someone who is very familiar with the matter to enlighten us here.

    Thank you very much. ??

    Thread Starter markez123

    (@markez123)

    In addition, there is a Link ”?Join the WordPress translation team for Serbian (Latin)!” and it does not work.

    I believe that there has been a conscious decision to cease Serbian Latin, but I would pay gold to understand WHY ? Since this is literally necessary to over 90% of website owners in Serbia!

    While it is true that the official alphabet of the country (Serbia) is indeed in Cyrillic, it is also true that only about 5% website owners will opt for the Cyrillic option.

    @markez123 there is no need for CAPS and this tone ?? Also, we practice async communication, so there is no need to hunt me down via email and ping me there to answer your question ??

    Let’s start from the beginning:

    1. Cyrillic is the official Serbian alphabet.
    2. From Cyrillic to Latin, transliteration is 1-1 match, but with Latin to Cyrillic, there are multiple issues, like injekcija would be и?екци?а, which is incorrect, correct is ин?екци?а.
    3. This is volunteer base work, and we wanted back in 2014 to have both, but that required us to translate in both Cyrillic and Latin and because the team was thin, we had to make a call, which we would translate only to Cyrillic and include transliteration plugin with the installation. I can get you this discussion if you want to read more.
    4. And I can’t entirely agree with your 90% and that transliteration is slowing down the website. This would be a good start for you: https://meta.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/5471 make sure you read the background story, too.
    5. We submitted the patch for this almost ten years ago ??
    6. We could use your help, too, with the Serbian translations: https://translate.www.ads-software.com/locale/sr/

    Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with

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