[Foundation-l] languages with INVENTED codes

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 23:40:31 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Crazy Lover
<always_yours.forever at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I add (In language Proposal policy - communiy draft) a clause is for languages with
> active wikis, but which Code has been invented: voro (fiu-vro), tarantino (roa-tara), Cantonese (zh-yue), min nan (zh-min-nan) , etc.
>
> For new proposal those will continue using the same
> invented code that are using.
>
> The problem: Imagine that they will
> use different codes [when get a ISO code or if they have: Min nan (nan), Cantonese (yue)] for new projects, the technical chaos that would
> occur.

This need not be a problem. Just create an HTML redirect, and let the
thing resolve itself in time. We have already had some moves (minnan
to zh-min-nan, no to nb, perhaps also dk to da?) without problems.



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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com


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