2018-01-25 2:53 GMT+01:00 Phake Nick <c933...@gmail.com>: > 2018年1月25日 03:49 於 "MF-Warburg" <mfwarb...@googlemail.com> 寫道： > > > > Well, but it's equally true (and written) that "If there is no valid ISO > 639 code, you must obtain one. The Wikimedia Foundation does not seek to > develop new linguistic entities". > > My understanding on the description of "does not seek to develop new > linguistic entities" is that WMF does not seek to develop new language and > thus it would like confirmation from ISO standard regulation body, instead > of the code itself. >
The best confirmation is that the regulation body gives them a new code. Everything else is just in limbo and they could change their opinion later. That will be a mess then. > > We do absolutely not want to invent our own codes, because that gets > really messy, especially when at some point a language does get a real code. > > Why not tentatively use e.g. ISO639-6 code as a working code in incubator > or for the project before it could get a 639-1/2/3 code? after it get a > code in ISO 639-1/2/3 then it should be possible to move things over. > Although all the code change requests have been piled up for years in > phabricator but that should hopefully be sorted out one day. > I wouldn't count on that. Temporary solutions always have a tendency to become permanent.
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