[Foundation-l] Community draft of language proposal policy

[Milos Rancic]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only question which I have is: why to move from ISO 639 to RFC
> 4646 codes? Is there any advantage and if so, which?

Hm. The answer is at the talk page:

"Removal of the ISO 639 requirement. Technically, all that is needed
is an RFC 4646 code (like zh-min-nan). The language code identifying
the localisation is traditionally RFC 4646, as is the HTML "lang"
attribute. And there is no reason why multiple wikis can't share a
language code -- there are plenty of language group codes which
provide for miscellaneous minor languages and dialects. They just have
to have a unique domain name. The domain name does not have to be the
same as the language code."