On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Philip Tellis wrote: > There is no standard, each website makes up its own list and puts that > up. You'll have to contact each website owner.
I was afraid if that was the only way. More recently, I was filling university application forms and I found that in the language selection they all presented same list of languages and many minor ones too (not just official list). For e.g, they gave Indic (Other) as the closest for minor Indo-Aryan languages. Generic websites, may not go to that extent in any way. Yes, contacting the website owner might give some pointer. > There is the ISO standard for language codes iso-639. You could check > if it's in there, but that isn't going to make every website owner on > the planet care about it. Thats true. Given that "The total number of languages in the world is between 5,000 and 10,000."[1] But as Sourashtra Script has unicode codepoint (out of total: 75 codepoints) published and I realized that it was result of single person effort. I thought, if there was standard for List of Languages in Drop Downs, then I may very well try to push it. Might be helpful to a few. iso-629 seems to focus on short-codes, could not find any reference there and could not find any Internet standard w.r.t languages too. Thanks, Senthil [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages -- Senthil _______________________________________________ Freed mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/freed
