[Foundation-l] languages with INVENTED codes

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The standards did not change. The standard that gave the English language
the code en has been around since 2002. People chose to ignore the standard
and abused codes like als in stead of gsw, they ignored the fact that the
best common practice states that you should not mix the codes with invented
codes. Using codes that are absolutely wrong  should not be used for any new
projects. These projects should be renamed.

Renaming and leaving a redirect in place is indeed a great way to move
forward.
Thanks,
     GerardM

http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=gsw
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=als

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > Really problematic are codes like the one used for Alsation; the "als"
> > code.
> > This code is according to the standard to be used by Tosk Albanian while
> we
> > use it for "Alsatian". This is not acceptable for what we currently do,
> > making it compulsory for future new projects is not acceptable either.
> > Projects like these should be renamed as they are squatting ligitimate
> > codes
> > for ligitimate languages.
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
> >
>
> Asking people to change their URLs is not a good idea. Let's
> say the standards changed and EN was no longer English.
> Do you honestly think we'd move en.wiki just because some
> standards body says we're using the wrong code?
>
> While I agree that it's best practice to follow the standard, forcing
> a subdomain change on a project simply to follow a standard is
> absurd.
>
> Perhaps moving it to the correct language code and leaving the
> old one in place as a redirect could work :)
>
> -Chad
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