Interlingue translation team

There does not exist any glibc locale yet which represents Interlingue.

The similar language Interlingua does have a locale, and for that language there is already a team — ubuntu-l10n-ia — which can work in Ubuntu with Interlingua translations.

Would it be an option for you to join the ubuntu-l10n-ia team and work with that language instead?

No, those are different languages.

Interlingue conforms to the generic UTF-8 collation order and CTYPE, and can work with any UTF-8 glibc locale. Using the $LANGUAGE is a preferred way to localize applications, in any way.

I see. Then, what you suggest is to establish a brand new language for FOSS localization.

But you do need to create and have an Interlingue locale approved. LANG (actually LC_MESSAGES) is the basis for selecting the display language, and needed for those apps — quite a few important ones — which do not acknowledge the gettext specific LANGUAGE variable.

So I'd say you should start there. But it looks like that won't be easy:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19975

In short, and unlike that bug reporter, you need to convince the glibc maintainers that it would be motivated to add an Interlingue locale.

Sure. Meanwhile, I would like the translation team to be assigned to the existing Interlingue language in the Launchpad.

I can do that. Just did.

But please don't spend too much time on it before you know that an Interlingue locale has been approved. Without an approved locale, any translation efforts will be wasted time.

This is the URL for filing a request about the creation of a locale:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=glibc&component=localedata

I hope to see such a bug soon including some convincing arguments. ;)