[Pkg-isocodes-devel] New items and Wikipedia codes

[Clytie Siddall]

Hi everyone :)

As always, it is a combined pleasure and headache updating the iso- 
codes files. ;)

The pleasure because I enjoy the meticulous categorization, and the  
headache because I have to find ways to express names we haven't ever  
translated, and haven't a prayer of pronouncing.

But I digress...

My questions:

1.
I was intrigued by the last lot of new strings. I know I don't keep  
up with the news very well, but I thought states like the USSR and  
Yugoslavia no longer existed in those terms. I even thought that  
there was one Germany again, not two.

Or are we keeping these strings for backwards compatibility of a  
weird historic kind?


2. In the effort towards content negotiation, I'm putting together a  
list of language names, each in their native language. I'm not trying  
to do this for all countries (yet ;) ), but I've started with the  
languages actively supported at Wikipedia, and the ones actively  
supported at OpenOffice.org.

I found that Wikipedia uses some weird language codes. See the links  
on its main multilingual page. [1]

So my list so far [2] contains some language names and codes I  
couldn't find in my ISO_639 PO file, or on the webpage [3].

Am I just not looking in the right places, or has Wikipedia invented  
some new languages (and the people who actively support them)? :D

Thankyou for any order you can bring to my multilingual muddle. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

[1] http://wikipedia.org/

[2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NLC:LanguageList

[3] http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-isocodes-devel/attachments/20070826/381b298b/attachment.pgp