Re: adding support for missing languages

From: ericzen (ericzen@ez-net.com)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 23:51:14 EDT

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    On 2002.10.11 22:18 Andrew Dunbar wrote:
    > --- Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org> wrote: >
    > Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> wrote in
    > > news:3DA6F7DD.8010801@softcatala.org:
    > >
    > > > Northern Sami, se, se_fi
    > >
    > > This is incorrect. It should be 'se_NO', or
    > > preferably only 'se' (Northern Sami is used in both
    > > Norway, Sweden and Finland, but use a common
    > > orthography). But why do you use countries in the
    > > language tags? This only unnecessarily restricts
    > > their uses.
    >
    > Thanks Karl. This always bugs me. We currently have
    > absurdities such as la-IT for Rennaiscance Latin.
    > What has the country code for Italy got to do with a
    > variety of a language belonging to a historic period?
    >
    > Well there's no country code for "rennaissance" you
    > may say. Exactly. No country to me means don't put
    > a country - not pick whatever country.
    >
    > Anyway I've wanted a real solution to this for ages
    > and a proper discussion about it so we can design it.
    > Please check out my oft-advertised bug report:
    > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3227
    > "Need to extend language tags".
    > I think we need to invent a "language object" which
    > can hold more and more precise info than the mere ISO
    > tags. We should use the objects exclusively and only
    > (lossily) convert them to the ISO tags where necessary
    > for foreign file formats. Our own file format should
    > of course have a non-lossy equivalent.
    >
    > There I said it (:
    >
    > Andrew.
    >
    > > --
    > > Karl Ove Hufthammer
    >
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    la-RO perhaps?
    su-UR sumarian?
    is there an assignment for "as", if so, we could use ay for Assyrian.

    For your amusement only.

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