Re: Joining language names

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:43:00AM +0000, Andre Engels wrote:
> I find that language names are now being standardized to the English form
> for all languages. I think that that's a bad change. On nl: we had bg:
> in Bulgarian. It is now English. We had languages in the local encoding.
> We now get the Latin between brackets added without reason. And in some
> cases ('Simplified Chinese') that's in English again, not in local language
> or Dutch. Some languages (sv:, pl:) used local form. Not possible any
> more. Who decided for all languages that English is the best here?

Are you sure ? I see everything in target-language names.
jp: is Nihongo, de: is Deutsch etc.