John Cowan wrote: > I still plump for "Frisian, Western", from which "Western Frisian" can > be reliably reconstructed, but not vice versa. To exclude inverted > names is to throw away potentially valuable information. Maybe, but there's a LOT of "potentially useful information" about languages that are not at all covered by the registry. Also, when translating the language names (as done in CLDR), translating "Western Frisian" to "västfrisiska" is straightforward, while translating "Frisian, Western" to "frisiska, väst-" is clumsy and reconstructing the uninverted name means also to know when to and when not insert a space (admittedly easy, just check if there is a hyphen at the end or not), and when to and when not to delete the hyphen (this may be language and case by case dependent). /kent k _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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