National chapters (was Re: [Foundation-l] UK Wikimedia Foundation notes)

[Brion Vibber]

David Gerard wrote:
> Worse than that even - sh: was Serbo-Croatian, then they were separated at
> some stage. Anyone know the history?

The ISO 639 language code 'sh' for Serbo-Croatian was officially
deprecated over five years ago:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html

While I'm sure a happy world in which the violent breakup of Yugoslavia
never happened would be great, the fact is that it did happen, and the
resulting nations are heavily invested in playing up nationalistic
ethnic and linguistic differences.

I don't particularly care whether someone attempts to re-merge them or
not, but you're going to run into very annoyed people either way.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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