[Pkg-isocodes-devel] String Dutch; Flemish in iso_639

[Tobias Toedter]

On Monday 26 March 2007 18:31, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Well, this should be reported by the Dutch (and Belgian) authorities,
> I guess. ISO only recognizes national standard boards as authorized
> advices on such issues.

Hi,

I agree with you here. We should not change the standard in our package, 
because it would not be a "standard" anymore.

> This could be an opportunity to use, in ISO-639, a trick we also used
> in ISO-3166 and define a "common_name" field where we could put a
> "commonly accepted name for the given language". This is what we used
> to give Taiwan its name back while not breaking the ISO standard.

I'm fine with this.

Regards,
Tobias

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Tobias Toedter   | I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure.
Hamburg, Germany |
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