Re: Dataset for all ISO639 code sorted by country/territory?

On 20 September 2016 at 18:34, Doug Ewell wrote: > > Is there any dataset that contains all languages in the world sorted > > by country/territory? > > As others have pointed out, be careful about how slippery this slope can > get. Everyone has his or her own opinion about how

RE: The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back

More generally, does that mean that alphabets with perceived owners will only be considered for encoding with permission from those owner(s)? What if the ownership is ambiguous or unclear? Getting permission may be a lot of work, or cost money, in some cases. Will applications be considered

Re: Dataset for all ISO639 code sorted by country/territory?

On 10 November 2016 at 17:56, Doug Ewell wrote: > > Keep in mind that the CLDR table documents 675 of the world's best-known > languages, counting variants such as three different orthographies of > Uzbek. Oddly, it seems that there are over 1.2 billion speakers of Cantonese in

RE: Dataset for all ISO639 code sorted by country/territory?

Mats Blakstad wrote: > For myself I was not actually considering the amount of speakers in > each country, but to map languages with countries/territories where > the language originated or have been spoken traditionally. And that is where I think you'll have disagreement on the details. > So I

Re: The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back

The committee doesn't "tentatively approve, pending X". But the good news is that I think it was the sense of the committee that the evidence of use for Klingon is now sufficient, and the rest of the proposal was in good shape (other than the lack of a date), so really only the IP stands in the