Re: how should we localize locale names?

[Pierre Abbat]

>Theory C
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>Even if we *could* render all those language names properly in the UI, it'd 
>still be a bad idea.  Speakers of each of the 170 languages in the world 
>just plain *want* that entire list of 170 languages to be rendered in their 
>language.  Period. 

Where do you get 170 from? There are thousands. There are around 700 languages
in PNG alone, which is enough to exhaust all the two-letter codes.

phma