RE: UDHR In Unicode: passed the 350 mark

From: Erkki I. Kolehmainen (eik@iki.fi)
Date: Sun Feb 28 2010 - 02:57:50 CST

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    Eric et al.,

    I'd strongly suggest that the ISO 639-3 names be used.

    In addition, you may refer to Ethnologue for other names.

    Regards, Erkki

    Erkki I. Kolehmainen
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    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
    Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:55 AM
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    Cc: Eric Muller
    Subject: Re: UDHR In Unicode: passed the 350 mark

    Eric Muller wrote:

    > As you probably know, language names are a tricky issue. The goal of
    > the project is not to sort out that issue, so we use exclusively the
    > Ethnologue primary language names. I added the following to the page
    > discussing language identification:
    >
    > We use only the Ethnologue primary language names, may be followed by
    > a qualifier in parenthesis: for example “Akan (Akuapem)”.
    >
    > We do not provide an exhaustive index by alternate language names. For
    > example, the Ethnologue uses "Gaelic, Irish" as the primary language
    > name and provides "Irish", "Erse", "Gaeilge" as alternate names. In
    > our index, the Irish translation will be found only under "Gaelic,
    > Irish". If you have difficulty finding a translation by language name,
    > you may want to use the Ethnologue to determine the primary language
    > name.

    For reference, ISO 639-3 -- largely an SIL project, like Ethnologue --
    calls this language "Irish." The IANA Language Subtag Registry uses ISO
    639-3 names. 

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