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As a side note, the [http://www.mozilla-world.org/ mozilla-world.org] domain (operated by [http://www.mozilla-europe.org/ Mozilla Europe]) now shortens locale names in that way by default (after I had some talk with peterv about that matter), see their language navigation at the bottom. | As a side note, the [http://www.mozilla-world.org/ mozilla-world.org] domain (operated by [http://www.mozilla-europe.org/ Mozilla Europe]) now shortens locale names in that way by default (after I had some talk with peterv about that matter), see their language navigation at the bottom. | ||
After recent discussions, someone wanting to register for venetian, which has no ISO 639.2 code, and some of our people even reading the [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066 "language tag" RFC 3066], it seems we want to support the third (dialect) part of locale codes as well. That's extremely useful for languages that have no IS 639.2 code defined, as we can use a generic code (like e.g. roa) and add the [http://www.ethnologue.com/codes/default.asp SIL code] as the "dialect" identifier. This way, we stay inside standardized values and can nicely support those languages we had problems with in the old scheme. | |||