On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 08:07 +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Mazdak Kiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My language ISO 639-3 code is prs: > >> > >> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=prs > >> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=prs > > > > When we can use ISO 639-1 language codes, we should use those. ISO > > 639-3 should only be used when a code does not exist. > > At least such "should" is not documented on GNOME's wiki.
Any language needs to get a libc locale first, and these restrictions are enforced there. > > Locale projects, including Unicode CLDR, use fa_AF for Dari. For > > example, see here: > > According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari_%28Persian%29) > this Dari language is also spoken in Pakistan, Tajikistan and > Turkmenistan. Should Dari speakers in those countries use country code > _AF as their locale? Isn't such usage problematic in many ways? > > Therefore I argue that technically it is better to use three letter > language codes if ISO standard has assigned a separate code, because > then there is no disambiguity of using country codes etc. Yeah, like, because English is spoken in so many countries, why do we have en_US, en_CA, en_UK, ...? -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n