Hello, G Karunakar wrote: > 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).
[snip] > I was wondering if any language teams have worked on having a standard > list which could be reused. We had done this quite sometime back for Country names, Language names and Timezones.[1] The country names in this case was compiled from an United Nations document. I am updating the Country and Language names from the ISO codes files now. The current lists are here: http://ankur.org.in/wiki/CountryNames http://ankur.org.in/wiki/LanguageNames > 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. +100 I had tried to check (without any luck) if there are any Government approved versions for the Country and Language names that are used for formal diplomatic correspondence. That would save everyone a lot of trouble. Does anyone know if any such data exists and where to find them? Thanks Runa [1] http://arrbee.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/glossaries-for-bengali-india-bn_in-l10n-repetitive-data/ -- blog: http://arrbee.wordpress.com irc: mishti or runa_b on Freenode ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ IndLinux-group mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group
