[Ltru] OT: Language picking
John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Fri, 06 October 2006 05:42 UTC
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Subject: [Ltru] OT: Language picking
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Well, here's the idea I came up with. Feel free to pick holes in it. First, a list of countries to choose from. This list is long, but people are used to it, so it shouldn't be a big problem. Next, a couple of lists to choose one of (using radio buttons, say): the home languages (English for the U.K., e.g.), the indigenous living languages, the dead languages, the immigrant languages. That nails down the language. Then some more lists to choose one of; the generic form of the language (no country code), the form used in the country you picked in the first place, other countries where the language is used, other countries where supposedly it isn't used. So you pick US, find English in the indigenous living languages, and then you can pick en, en-us, en-* for likely countries, and then oddities like en-fr, en-dk, etc. -- Real FORTRAN programmers can program FORTRAN John Cowan in any language. --Allen Brown cowan@ccil.org _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
- [Ltru] OT: Language picking John Cowan
- [Ltru] RE: Language picking Debbie Garside
- [Ltru] Re: Language picking John Cowan
- [Ltru] Re: Language picking John Cowan
- [Ltru] RE: Language picking Don Osborn
- [Ltru] RE: Language picking Don Osborn
- [Ltru] Re: Language picking John Cowan
- [Ltru] RE: Language picking Alberto Escudero Pascual