On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 05:42:05PM +0000, Miloš Komarčević wrote: > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade redhat com> wrote: > > Pardon my reply to self ... > > > > Right after I sent this, Paul suggested 'native names for languages' > > as a Google search term, and that seems to give me what I need. > > > > Sorry for the noise. :) > > > > I would use such lists with some reservation though, as they are > usually composed by other enthusiasts and not necessarily language > experts. > > For example, the list in the first Google hit > http://rishida.net/names/languages.html puts down native names for > Serbian starting with capitals - this is wrong since langauge in most > Slavic languages is just an adjective and written in lowercase as such > (similar mistake for Macedonian, Croatian, Slovenian, etc.) Yes, I noticed and was worried about that. > I have asked recently about where gdm tucked away it's list [1], and > have since peeked in the source code: it looks like the list is no > more, they try to work it out real-time from available glibc locales, > /usr/share/locale contents, and /usr/share/xml/iso-codes (with varying > degrees of success..). > > Anaconda's list, iso-codes xml files, or Wikipedia could be better sources. Bill said in the bug report that it was embedded in a .c file through Fedora 8, but it is now dynamically generated. I'll use Anaconda's list and replace anything that looks even slightly different. I like using an in-distro source, because it gives us one place to correct as canonical. Thanks - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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