[libextractor] Using iso-codes

[Clytie Siddall]

Hello :)

I'm your Vietnamese translator. I notice, while I'm updating  
libextractor, that you have added some more language names. Some of  
these, at least, are not the current, correct language names as  
stated in ISO-639.

To avoid having to try and keep up with names of languages and  
countries, I suggest that you use the iso-codes package as a plugin.

I've mentioned this to other developers, and I suppose the reason  
it's not already universally implemented, is that people may not know  
the resource exists.

The iso-codes package is installed with every main system, AFAIK (not  
sure about Windoze). It includes the current ISO list of language  
names and language codes, names of countries and states/provinces. It  
is kept current, and is the authoratitive list for these designations.

I have translated it myself, a huge task for each translator, and it  
doesn't make sense to keep on having to translate lists of languages  
or countries in specific applications, when the standard list exists  
in iso-codes.

I'm theorizing that developers could use the iso-codes package as a  
resource for this type of information. This also avoids  
inconsistencies in names of languages, countries etc.,  
inconsistencies in translation of them, and means developers don't  
have to keep up-to-date with this information, since iso-codes does  
that for you.

The iso-codes translations are managed by The Translation Project  
(which you already use for translation) and the iso-codes package is  
maintained by Alastair McKinstry:, <address@hidden>, who is  
very helpful, and interested in working with developers on  
integrating iso-codes with applications.

I look forward to a time when the iso-codes package is integrated  
with the system to the degree that any application can call it easily.

I hope this is useful. :)

from Clytie

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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