[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Tagging "historical" entries in the PO files for ISO_3166 ( and?others? )

[Tobias Toedter]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 19:37:25 Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Tobias Toedter (t.toedter at gmx.net):
> > Upon further investigation, I found out that we use those historic
> > entries only for ISO 3166 and ISO 4217. All other files do not include
> > historic entries.
> >
> > This leads me to the question: Do we need to provide those entries? If
> > not, maybe we should just discard them. And if we do, it seems to me
> > that maybe we're better off by separating them into another XML file,
> > so that translators can choose to concentrate first on the current
> > entries -- and only translate the obsolete entries if they have the
> > manpower to do so.
>
> Well, they are part of the standard(s) so I don't really like the idea
> of putting them aside.
>
> There are not that many of these and they, by definition, never
> change. So I'd recommend keeping them in the same file.

Yes, Alastair said about the same in a private mail, so I guess we should 
keep those entries and mark them as "historical".

Regards,
Tobias

-- 
Tobias Toedter   | There are two kinds of people, those who finish
Hamburg, Germany | what they start and so on.
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