Re: Joining language names

Brion Vibber <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2004 04:05:54 -0800
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On Feb 19, 2004, at 04:01, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 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.
>> ...
>>  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.

Some languages don't have the target-language name because nobody's dug 
up the correct name yet. Please provide any you see that are missing 
that you can find the correct name for!

The only one that should be in English is English.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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