Re: Unannonced team de_BY or mistake?

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh farsiweb info>]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 15:59 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> 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".

I am not comfortable with that either, but the current status is
something like: "No official language code yet, so no glibc locale". How
are you planning to use your localization without glibc locales?

But as for a real answer, I will need to check a few standards documents
and ask a few people and then tell you. But the best I can think of now,
is using the "other" codes from ISO 639-2.

For example, if you want to do Bavarian, assuming it is a Germanic
language (I don't know if it is or not, since my web is out now), you
should use the code for "Germanic (Other)", which is "gem", and add a
modifier (which could be "@bavarian", "@bar", or whatever). So you will
have something like "gem bar" or "gem bavarian".

That's a standard way to do it. There may also be other standard ways,
possibly better.

> If an entry resides in ISO 639-3, it means that there are good hints 
> that the official name will be just that.

I don't agree. A code in ISO 639-3 means nothing regarding ISO 639-2.

roozbeh