From: David Chart (linux@dchart.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 14:05:24 EDT
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 03:51, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- David Chart <linux@dchart.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Until ISO get this sorted out, which I suppose might
> > happen, I suggest that we avoid using kludges to
> > handle dead languages and historical versions of
> > living languages.
>
> I disagree. ISO aren't going to care about these
> issues as much as a dedicated multilingual word
> processor. ISO's language codes are terribly
> incomplete compared to dedicated language groups such
> as SIL. We should design a system that will work well
> in the general case, try to support each new language
> as somebody asks for it, and work with current and
> upcoming ISO standards too.
But that isn't a kludge (as la-IT is). That's a proper solution, and it
sounds like an excellent idea to me.
-- David Chart http://www.dchart.demon.co.uk/
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