"Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Mazdak Kiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > 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. -- Tommi Vainikainen _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
