[Mageia-sysadm] Request of mailing lists for i18n language teams

[Michael scherer]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 01:07:27PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> 2010/12/24 Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:16:47AM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> >> 2010/12/23 Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> >> > za is the TLD of south afrika, afrikaans language is af, according to
> >> > wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
> >>
> >> I bookmarked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
> >
> > Technically, I was wrong, it should the ietf language code :
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag
> > ( because after trying to understand the 6 iso standard, i still do
> > not understand why there is different tag for almost everything )
> 
> Déjà vu! Remember the discussion in the early days of Mageia about IRC
> channel names?

I skipped it, but I can imagine the problem.
Facts is a irc channel can be tied to a location, or a language.
Ie, the UK case was indeed a perfect exemple of the confusion.
( i18n is easier, this is always tied to a language )
 
> Well, I let you sort it out while I prepare my beard, the red tent
> (called costume), and the standard speech :)

Don't forget to bring the AKA 47 to defend against kids /o\ 
-- 
Michael Scherer