ilooy wrote:
I'd like to suggest that taking into consideration
ISO codes or SIL codes may
be one solution. This would mean that an outside group which is well
established and has looked into the matter has deemed a certain language
important enough to be assigned a separate code.
This is exactly the policy we adopted several years ago, which has proved
insufficient.
Relying on existence of ISO codes brings us:
* split Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian replacing Serbocroatian [controverial]
* Klingon
etc
and denies various languages/dialects/whatever which don't have their own codes
but which are oft asked for.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)