> From: Peter Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> But what do the users of the language(s) say about this? That isn't answering my question, which was about IT implementations. Given your further comment, > Unicode has dug itself into a deep enough hole already this week... > It should be careful to listen to users from small countries > rather than impose on them a western guess... looks an awful lot like a rant that has little to do with this topic. After all, the question asked has nothing directly to do with the Unicode Consortium, UTC or the Unicode Standard: ISO 639 is wholly an ISO standard. As for what Moldovans think, if usage on the Moldovan gov't web site is any indication, then "md" is the identifier for this language -- they avoid the dilemma altogether by using the ISO 3166 country ID! In the constitution, the language is called "moldoveneasca", but having a distinct name does not mean that it IT applications it should be distinguished. If there is a strongly-felt distinct cultural identity, then there may be grounds to consider there to be two different languages (cf Serbo-Croatian). But none of that has anything whatsoever to do with the question I asked. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division
