[Foundation-l] Translations fundraising.wikimedia.org

[Gerard Meijssen]

SJ Klein schreef:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
>   
>> Aphaia wrote:
>>     
>>> And I have no idea if it is good or not to represent English with UK
>>> national flag. Is it controvertial for many language communities or
>>> not?
>>>       
>> Please don't use flags to represent languages, ever.
>>     
>
> Seconded.
>
> It could be neat to have small icons with two-letter codes in them to 
> represent each language; they could have color to make them easy to pick 
> out of a list.  I feel I've seen a good example of this before, but can't 
> recall where.
>
> SJ
Hoi,
Most languages do not have two-letter codes, most are what is called in 
the Standard world "alpha three". They are of the ISO-639-2 and 
ISO-639-3. All these codes are in lower case. Examples can be found in 
some applications that deal with multiple languages.
Thanks,
    GerardM