Re: New team for Dari (prs)

[Tommi Vainikainen <thv iki fi>]

"Roozbeh Pournader" <roozbeh gmail com> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Mazdak Kiani <mazdak kiani yahoo com> wrote:
>> My language ISO 639-3 code is prs:
>>
>>          http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=prs
>>          http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=prs
>
> When we can use ISO 639-1 language codes, we should use those. ISO
> 639-3 should only be used when a code does not exist.

At least such "should" is not documented on GNOME's wiki.

> Locale projects, including Unicode CLDR, use fa_AF for Dari. For
> example, see here:

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari_%28Persian%29)
this Dari language is also spoken in Pakistan, Tajikistan and
Turkmenistan. Should Dari speakers in those countries use country code
_AF as their locale? Isn't such usage problematic in many ways?

Therefore I argue that technically it is better to use three letter
language codes if ISO standard has assigned a separate code, because
then there is no disambiguity of using country codes etc.

-- 
Tommi Vainikainen