New language codes?

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 21:36:37 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:55:34PM -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 03:30 -0400, Asgeir Frimannsson wrote:
> 
> > Here are the proposed renames. I'm not an expert, and some codes would
> > make more sense without a country-qualifier I guess (country qualifier
> > is ISO-wise optional).
> 
> If the country qualifier is ISO defined and not a political spark the
> way flags are, then I don't see a barrier to country-qualifiers.  It
> makes them a bit busier to read, but more informative.  For example,
> 'ca-ES' tells me much more than 'ca' did.  Makes sense to use them.
> 
> Thanks for this, I hadn't realized how far adrift we'd gone. :)

I hadn't either until I saw publican using them.  Why doesn't anyone
tell us these things? ;-)

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