On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Kjetil Lenes wrote:
If you consider Norwegian nynorsk to be a dialect, you have your facts wrong. It is one of two written forms of norwegian, they have the same legal standing.
I'm not talking about dialects or legal standing. I'm talking about renaming thousands of URLs, breaking incoming links from other websites, for no good reason. Once assigned, good URLs such as no.wikipedia.org and et.wikipedia.org should not be changed.
ISO can decide tomorrow that English should be xy and French should be ab. We shouldn't follow such changes. It is a totally different issue that we consult ISO when we open a new project.
I agree wholeheartedly, and I believe I brought up the same point last time around. If a language code that we already use is changed by ISO, then we most certainly should not be changing it. At least not without a very VERY strong consensus to do so.
I'm all for following ISO for language names/codes, but to follow it blindly without a dose of common sense--and to decide that a project should be renamed without said project's input--is just absurd.
-Chad