Hallo Herr Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel, am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 19:22 schrieben Sie:
> Hi, > using the language code for FD NLS ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639_language_codes ) will have the > following consequences with the file ending: > > a) Czechia should use "cs" instead of "cz" ( 4 changes, see: > https://shidel.github.io/fd-nls/report.html ) > b) Denmark should use "da" instead of "dk" (12 changes) > c) Estonia should use "et" instead of "ee" (3 changes) > d) Slovenia should use "sl" instead of "si" (2 changes, both .sl already > exist) > e) Brazilian should use "whatever you want, as it is not in ISO 639), instead > of "ptb or ptbr" (12 changes). You somehow managed to miss that Germany should use "de" instead of "gr" > > Using the country code would have more problems: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes > a) Esperanto "eo" has no country -> no country code (delete???) > b) Basque "eu" has no country -> no country code (delete???) > c) Japan "ja" would have to use "jp" (1 change) > d) Latin "la" has no country, maybe Italy "it" could be used (1 change) > e) Brazil (?) would have a country (BR) (12 changes) > f) Serbia "sr" would have to use "rs" (4 changes) > g) Sveden "sv" would have to use "se" (more than 50 changes) > h) Ukraine "uk" would have to use "ua" (4 changes) > i) China "zh" would have to use "cn" (1 change) > > Indepent which way you prefer, I think a documentation has to be done (maybe > changed). Can anybody tell me where this documentation is? > I hope that this makes decisions for the future of NLS languarges easier. > Any comments? YES. After 40 years of using "GR" changing this to "DE" is a PRETTY FUCKING STUPID IDEA. Upper case intended. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
