Re: GNU gettext updates for ISO 639-1

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:14:26 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> I prefer to update from a newer version of the former URL. It sounds
> more official. With the second URL, I get the feeling of looking at
> internal ISO working group documents that are changing on a daily
> basis.

You're right in general, but in this particular case I have confirmed
with H. Hjulstad, the Convener of ISO/TC 37/SC 2/WG 1, that the
changes are official.  He also confirmed that the former URL (at the
Library of Congress) will be updated when he and the LoC get around to
it.


> Anyway, we don't need to be that much on the bleeding edge for this
> kind of standards. The most exotic language, viewed from Europe, that
> has started to use GNU gettext is Luganda.

Luganda is the reason I suggested the gettext manual update.  The GNU
Free Translation Project refers to the gettext manual for its locale
names; since the gettext manual didn't have "lg" they used the
3-letter abbreviation.  While I was confirming "lg" with Hjulstad it
was just as easy to confirm the other changes.  So I think it's OK to
use these changes.