🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <807@shelby.Stanford.EDU>,
 Tor Lillqvist <tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi> wrote:

> Another matter that might need some standardization is the allocation
> of language numbers.  I suggest that a range of the numbers (half of
> them?) is allocated to fixed languages, and that the rest are
> site-specific.  I hereby claim number 1 for Swedish (my native
> language), and number 2 for Finnish :-) :-)

I really hate to do this.  It really hurts me to recommend anything from
the PC world.  But just because it's in OS/2 doesn't mean it's bad...

	OS/2 National Language Support already has a set of "country
codes" assigned.  Now countries aren't languages -- Switzerland is one
country with four languages, English is one language with many countries --
but it's a good place to start, and most internationalisation is going to
be country-based rather than language-based anyway (currency symbols and
date styles vary in countries with the same language).  Instead of
inventing yet another scheme, why not use the same numbers that OS/2 does?
And when I tell you that
	044	= the United Kingdom
	046	= Sweden
	358	= Finland
perhaps you will see where OS/2 gets its numbers...