On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Danilo Segan wrote:

> For the sake of difference, I would recommend the following:
> - National keymaps should use ISO 3166 code in all UPPERCASE (eg. "US")
> - Linguistic keymaps should use ISO 639 code in all lowercase (eg. "en")

Is this going to cause us to run into CVS problem we had resentily, 
where we couldn't rename file hp to directory HP (or similar) ?

> In your example, "CA" (if that's the code for 
> Canada) would have "CA(en)", "CA(fr)", while "fr" would have "fr(CA)", 
> "fr(FR)",... It's up to the implementor to choose and see where to put 
> the actual definitions, and where to simply include them from the other.

Is there a difference between CA(fr) and fr(CA)*
Does the user care about it ? Should we make them mean the same thing ?
*FR(ca) would be different, although possibly unimportant or meaningless.

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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