Adding unofficial languages support?

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
Tue Sep 10 23:18:00 GMT 2002


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> It is a requirement.  Contact the body maintaining ISO 639 to get the
> language recognized.

More specifically, the request form is at

http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639-2form.html

The criteria for assigning a code are at

http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/criteria2.html

It appears that the SIL code is AXX; I'm not sure whether copying the
SIL code is common. The "canonical" code, ara, is already used for
Arabic.

Regards,
Martin



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