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Re: Adding unofficial languages support?
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Jordi Mallach <jordi at sindominio dot net>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:48:41 -0700
- Subject: Re: Adding unofficial languages support?
- References: <20020911003356.GA26010@nubol.amalur.nat>
I don't think an ISO standard listing needs to be a precondition of
supporting a language in libc. It is certainly best if you can get the ISO
standard updated to include your language, but it is not reasonable to
expect GNU users not to use whatever languages they prefer just because ISO
is slow in assigning a code. You do need to make sure that your team and
the language code you choose are coordinated with the GNU translation
project, see http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/. If the
translation project agrees on a code, I don't see why glibc should not use it.