On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:43:07AM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 08:07 +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: ... > > 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. > > Yeah, like, because English is spoken in so many countries, why do we > have en_US, en_CA, en_UK, ...? What about the case like Arabic where we have one common "ar" locale where all translations reside, and several "ar_XX" locales per country to allow different locale settings. If Dari is spoken in different countries, it might not be a good idea to force all Dari speakers to use one single locale. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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