On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 03:51, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > --- David Chart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Until ISO get this sorted out, which I suppose might > > happen, I suggest that we avoid using kludges to > > handle dead languages and historical versions of > > living languages. > > I disagree. ISO aren't going to care about these > issues as much as a dedicated multilingual word > processor. ISO's language codes are terribly > incomplete compared to dedicated language groups such > as SIL. We should design a system that will work well > in the general case, try to support each new language > as somebody asks for it, and work with current and > upcoming ISO standards too.
But that isn't a kludge (as la-IT is). That's a proper solution, and it sounds like an excellent idea to me. -- David Chart http://www.dchart.demon.co.uk/
