Re: [Bug-gne]more on the site...

[Joakim Ziegler]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:32:56PM -0800, Bob Dodd wrote:

>> If anybody can make a better language list, make it available! 

> http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/

> Naturally, it's copyrighted and we can't use it :-))

> Actually, maybe we shouldn't strive to provide a comprehensive list,
> but provide a list of currently moderatable (if that's a word)
> languages plus an "other" category for people to write in new
> languages. What do you think?

You will probably want to use the ISO 639/ISO 3166 standard, with the usage
described in RFC 1766. This is the standard that uses names such as EN_us for
American English.

A list of ISO 639 language names with both three and two-letter codes can be
found at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm

And a list of ISO 3166 country codes can be found at
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html

That's all you should need.

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