Hi Marcus,

Am 05.01.2018 um 21:19 schrieb Marcus:
> Am 05.01.2018 um 17:26 schrieb Matthias Seidel:
>>
>> since we have some new volunteers for the Ukrainian language on l10n@ I
>> am wondering why our homepage for Ukrainian links to "ua" [1] and not to
>> uk (or uk-UA)? In our source the translation file for Ukrainian resides
>> in "uk" [2]
>
> OpenOffice is using standards and for language codes it's ISO 639-1 [1].
>
> And please take into account that it's about codes that represent
> *languages* and not countries. This don't need to be the same (e.g.,
> think of "uk" for United Kingdom and "en-GB" for British English). ;-)
>
> Wikipedia shows the same difference: country = "ua" [2] and language =
> "uk" [3].

So it is more like "dk" for Denmark and "da" for Danish...

>
> I think that means we should change the code for the website.

Thanks for the facts! ;-)

Matthias

>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language
>
> Marcus
>
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