Hi,
 I am not sure if this has been looked into well, but there is one issue
on standardizing on Country and language names. Many applications use
them, and in many cases have their own list. Atleast for Hindi there
seems inconsistency in their transliteration/translation, in many cases
the pronounciation is not as would be expected. Many country and language
names already have an Indian way of writing them, but some which were not
that historically linked/known dont seem to have correct representation
(or we dont know of).

some examples.
Catalan   -  कॉतालां  or
केतेलेन or
केतेलां - whats the correct
representation?
Bulgarian -
बुलगेरियाई  or
बुलगेरियन
Japanese - जापानी (already prevalent),
जापानीस
Chinese - चीनी (already prevalent),
चायनीस
China - चीन and not चायना
or चैना
Xhosa - how is it pronounced?

 I was wondering if any language teams have worked on having a standard
list which could be reused.
 If not already done, what could be done is pick up full list of countries
(ISO 3166) and languages (ISO 639), an provide their appropriate
transliteration/translation. Idea is to have an accurate representation
This could be pushed as a seperate activity, from where other projects can
pick up later.
 Please give comments/suggestions on how to take this forward.

Regards,
Karunakar


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