There is no perfect solution I'm afraid. Using the native language
name seems most logical, but then ordering alphabetically is not
possible. http://www.wikipedia.org/ uses the native language name and
orders by sound.

For choosing a default language, you could use the language
preference of the user.

With each request the browser includes the language preference of the
user. It's stored in the variable HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE and will look
like something as "en-ca,en;q=0.8,fr-ca;q=0.5,fr;q=0.3".

The http_accept_language variable contains a comma separated list of
possible languages/locales, each (optional) with a quotient
indicating the order of importance.

To check your own language setting visit:
http://www.ylab.nl/lab/lang.php

- Yohan



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