Re: Unannonced team de_BY or mistake?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 17:10 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
>  
>
> > Things are changing... ;-)
> > IS0 639-3 now has "bar" for Bavarian:
> > http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?code=bar
> >
> > Granted, ISO 639-3 is not an official ISO standard yet, it only has the
> > status of "Draft International Standard" so far, but should anyone want
> > to translate into Bavarian, then please use that code instead of
> > inventing your own standard.
> >    
>
> Sorry for the late reply, but I consider using "bar" very dangerous. ISO
> 639-3 should not be used in GNU-related localization, since its model is
> not appropriate for localization work.
>
> There is also something else: There is no promise the code "bar" won't
> be used by ISO 639-2 for another language later.
>  
What alternative answer do you propose for the question:
"We really want to localise, what language code shall we use?".
I am not comfortable with "Sorry mate, no official language code yet, so 
no localisation".

If an entry resides in ISO 639-3, it means that there are good hints 
that the official name will be just that.
If it does not get to be official, then bad luck, we have to do a bit 
more work to clear up.

Simos