2010/10/4 Marc Paré <[email protected]>: > > The ISO country codes were devised for such situations. The recognized > German language code is now "ger" as seen by the ISO Country code charts.
Thanks for this lecture, it's the first time I even hear/read about those 3-letter codes. In all the years of internet usage, in web, usenet, mail I never came across this. Whenever somebody referred to Germany and the language German it was "de". You never stop learning... So we should change all the URLs for the language-specific pages like mageia.org/de into mageia.org/ger (and all other languages) same with the IRC channels, unless the channels are country-related. I wonder whether the users of such pages and channels know this. I don't think that anybody in Germany would search for "ger"... How would you suggest to solve this?
