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



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