Avoiding Problems by Avoiding Decisions

[George Staikos]

On May 13, 2004 12:00, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> >  As a solution we can provide the country names as:
> > translated name (ISO name) and
> > ISO name (name in the langauge of the country)
> >
> > For example Hungary and Germany on an English desktop would be:
> > Hungary (Magyarorszag)
> > Germany (Deutschland)
>
> I thought of something like that for a bit, but this will break down for
> countries that have many languages that are widely used, or a strong
> minority population that speaks a different language. For example: what
> language would one use for Belgium?

  Locales have two parts.  Take English - en_GB, en_US, en_Canadian,eh?, etc

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