Re: New team for Dari (prs)

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 08:07 +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote:
> "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.

Any language needs to get a libc locale first, and these restrictions
are enforced there.


> > 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.

Yeah, like, because English is spoken in so many countries, why do we
have en_US, en_CA, en_UK, ...?


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