Re: Language code to language name mapping

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:49 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Then just use iso-codes. You can either choose to use the XML file, or
> the 500k /usr/share/iso-codes/iso_639.tab tab-separated file.

## PLEASE NOTE: THIS FILE IS DEPRECATED AND SCHEDULED TO BE REMOVED.
## IT IS FOR BACKWARD-COMPATIBILITY ONLY: PLEASE USE THE ISO-639.XML
## FILE INSTEAD.

> There's no points in reinventing the wheel or coming up with crazy
> hacks to parse a 500 line file :)

Right, but I would argue I should have to add an XML parser to
gnome-packagekit just to convert "fr" -> "French". Surely this sort of
translation should be done in Pango? pango_language_to_description()?

Richard.