Re: adding support for missing languages

From: Jordi Mas (jmas@softcatala.org)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 14:11:19 EDT

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    Hello Katl,

    >>For languages that really do not have cultural conventions is
    >>better not to specify any. If you think that 'Rennaiscance
    >>Latin' should not have a country attached (that I agree) we
    >>should change the locale.
    >
    >
    > You mean 'language (code)', not 'locale', right?

    Yes, sorry.

    > If you change the languages codes (which I think should be done),
    > at least 'nn-NO', 'nb-NO', and 'da-DK' should be changed. 'se' is
    > used in both Sweden and Finland, but I'm pretty sure they use a
    > common orthography, so 'sv-SE' can also be changed (to 'sv').

    Which are the ones that you suggest? Can you make a little list?

    > RFC 3066 <URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt > is what other
    > newer standards (such as XML) use, and solves this problem. It
    > basically says:
    >
    > 1. Use ISO 639-1 language code if possible
    > 2. If not, use 639-2/T (not ISO 639-2/B!) language code
    > 3. Use ISO 3166-1 country code if necessary
    >
    > Se we get:
    >
    > nn (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    > ast (Asturian)
    > en-GB (UK English)

    This is what I was also suggesting.

    Thanks Karl, 

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    Jordi Mas
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