Gurmeet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> May be a stupid question but what's the reason behind this change? I
> mean pa-IN is specifically used for Indian Punjabi and in result,
> differentiates it from Pakistani Panjabi. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gurmeet Singh Kochar
> 

I don't have details in depth, but I could some idea from Aman's Mozilla
bug report (see his Comment #2). Also, this perhaps gives the underlying
reasoning:
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/bugs/locale-bugs?findid=1300

However, I agree that for causal users the need for change is not really
clear. So, Aman Veer, can you perhaps write in simple language what the
reason is? I hope that would help other users reading this thread in
understanding the problem without having to read up on locales and CLDR.

But what you should keep in mind while trying to understand this is that
Panjabi (Punjabi? which is correct?) is used in India, Pakistan and many
other countries by Punjabi speakers. It is also written in either Arabic
or Gurmukhi, in all the regions. I think the main reason is to have a
hierarchy based on some new changes in Unicode standard which takes in
to account the size of population which uses Punjabi as a first and
second language
(http://www.unicode.org/cldr/bugs/locale-bugs?findid=1300). Aman can
correct me if I am wrong.

Regards.
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