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Re: Arabic

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Thomas Diehl wrote:

> For Arabic there's no difference between ISO 639-2/B and ISO 639-2/T.
> It's ara for both. (But from what you say I presume we are going with
> ISO 639-2/T for all cases where the letters are different, ie the new
> code for German would be deu, not ger.)

I guess it's not decided yet.

> I guess the Turks will take this as an offence. They are very keen on
> being Europeans, same apparently with the Aserbaijan. OTOH, the Kurdish
> coordinator would probably prefer to go for Middle East (but Kurdistan
> is not a country anyway). Best will be to let the teams decide where
> they think they belong to and their users will look for them.

Okay.

> coordinator yet (CCed therefore). So maybe this is a non-problem.
> I just wanted to know if can have a new region Middle East if there are
> -- say -- at least 4 or 5 countries who would prefer to be sorted that
> way instead of being put into "africa" or "asia". Better than having to
> re-edit those entry.desktop files over and over again for a dozen or
> more countries.

I guess you have a group if you have 3 or more countries. It should be
okay to add that know if they know that they will get that.

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