Trappist_the_monk added a comment.
In the week or so since my post (T256649#7246452
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256649#7246452>), the four codes mentioned
have been fixed at en.wiki.
At en.wik, a subset of those mentioned in the OP:
- [gsw] = "Alemannisch" – should be "Alemannic" in English
- [sty] = "себертатар" – must be "Northern Tatar" in English
- [vo] = "Volapük" – should probably be "Volapuk" in English (without the
combining diaeresis)
- [vro] = [fiu-vro]= "Võro" – should probably be "Voro" in English (without
the combining tilde)
are different from OP's suggestions:
- [gsw] = Swiss German
- [sty] = Siberian Tatar – note that OP says '**must be** "Northern Tatar"'
(emphasis added)
- [vo] = Volapük – not changed counter to OP's suggestion
- [fiu-vro] = võro – why lowercase when:
- [vro] = Võro (also not changed counter to OP's suggestion)? but see
T256649#7160228 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256649#7160228>
Except for the Võro / võro capitalization discrepancy, I have no objections
to the name choices that differ from OP's suggestions.
In T256649#6928587 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256649#6928587>,
@Trappist_the_monk wrote:
> Another oddity that we have come across is `{{#language:he|am}}` which is
terminated with U+FEFF zero width no-break space.
>
> Also, is there a reason that some language names use U+0027 apostrophe
(O'odham is one) and other language names use U+2019 right single quotation
mark (Cànan Hawai’i is one – but shouldn't the ʻokina be U+02BB modifier letter
turned comma?)
The above have not been answered. In that post I neglected to mention that
Cànan Hawai’i ← `{{#language:haw|gd}}` and O'odham ← `{{#language:ood|en}}`.
There are about 570 language-code / target-language-code pairs that render the
language name with U+2019 right single quotation mark and about 1770 pairs that
render the language name with U+0027 apostrophe (no doubt many of these in both
groups are fall-backs to some other target language). At en.wiki, only `nqo`
renders a language name with U+2019 right single quotation mark: N’Ko ←
`{{#language:nqo|en}}`. For code `nqo`, the ISO 639 custodians use U+0027
apostrophe for 'N'ko' (ISO 639-3 and ISO 639-2 English) and for 'n'ko' (ISO
639-2 French). IANA, in the language-subtag-registry file, supports both
'N'ko' (U+0027 apostrophe) and 'N’Ko' (U+2019 right single quotation mark).
Still, shouldn't the U+2019 right single quotation mark be replaced with the
U+0027 apostrophe in cases where U+2019 does not have special meaning (glottal
stops or whatever)? And where U+2019 right single quotation mark is used in
place of special characters like ʻokina (Hawaiʻian and other languages),
shouldn't U+2019 right single quotation mark be replaced with U+02BB modifier
letter turned comma or other appropriate character?
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