Subject: Re: how should we localize locale names?
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2001 - 20:59:45 CST
>Theory C
>--------
>Even if we *could* render all those language names properly in the UI, it'd
>still be a bad idea. Speakers of each of the 170 languages in the world
>just plain *want* that entire list of 170 languages to be rendered in their
>language. Period.
Where do you get 170 from? There are thousands. There are around 700 languages
in PNG alone, which is enough to exhaust all the two-letter codes.
phma
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