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Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?
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Philip Hands |
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Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming? |
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06 Aug 2001 21:00:11 +0100 |
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address@hidden writes:
> On 6 Aug, E L Tonkin wrote:
> > If you think about it, the German TLD is .de, ours is .uk, surely it makes
> > perfect sense to be .uk? I thought we were inclusive of non-English
> > territories such as Scotland, N.I., Wales?
>
> It was pointed out on address@hidden that fsfe-de uses de the ISO
> language code for German, not de the ISO country code for Federal
> Republic of Germany. I wondered if that made us an anachronism. In
> any case, we are using Ukrainian's code and should be either fsfe-gb
> or fsfe-en depending on whether it's country or language...
fsfe-en doesn't narrow it down much geographically, does it?
Wouldn't the choice be between fsfe-gb and fsfe-en-gb?
Of the two, I prefer fsfe-gb, because fsfe-en-gb seems to imply that
we'll have people complaining about US spelling on the list, which
would be very tedious.
Cheers, Phil.
- [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, MJ Ray, 2001/08/05
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, Alex Hudson, 2001/08/05
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, E L Tonkin, 2001/08/06
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, markj, 2001/08/06
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?,
Philip Hands <=
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, MJ Ray, 2001/08/06
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, E L Tonkin, 2001/08/06
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, MJ Ray, 2001/08/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, home, 2001/08/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, MJ Ray, 2001/08/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, E L Tonkin, 2001/08/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, MJ Ray, 2001/08/07
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, Philip Hands, 2001/08/08
- Re: [Fsfe-uk] List naming?, Klaus Schilling, 2001/08/07