Hello Dwayne, Dwayne Bailey wrote:
>Sounds to me like you'll continue to have more conflicts unless you can >decide whether these are language communities or country communities and >use the appropriate codes with none or few exceptions. > > We know and have decided from the beginning that we were language communities, not countries. The use of the language ISO codes for naming are the projects is the preferred method, but this rule has some exceptions. >And in fact it's the ISO639 code for Belarusian > > Ah, thanks. > >Please don't use country codes for language groups. You'll just confuse >everyone and it reflects a kind of European view of 1 language 1 >country. This is after all native-lang not native-country. > > Just a short note: The Brazilian project is a language-based project: there are clear differences between the "Portugues do Brasil" and the "Portugues" from Portugal or other lusophone-speaking areas in the world, to the point that it forms two close, yet different languages. Hence the existence of the two native-language project, br and pt projects. Best, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
