Most seem to be okay with the addition of the country/region tag from
ISO-3166 for determing the difference between languages spoken in several
places -- this is usually what is done for English, Arabic, Portuguese,
French, and Chinese, as well.
Under Windows, they just tack on a new sublanguage to create a new LCID...
Spanish, English, and Arabic seem to be duking it out for the largest number
of ones accepted from release to release -- although they are missing a lot
of languages and dialects, on purpose, as well.
I only have a few friends in Spain.... none of them were offended at those
who would refer to Spanish as espa�ol, but none of them were terribly
pleased with referring to Mexican Spanish as Castilian, either. I think it
may be similar to the French vs. Canadian French issue, just with less
emotion behind it.
michka
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http://www.i18nWithVB.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ewell" <[email protected]>
To: "Unicode List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue
> Michael Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Spaniards generally refer to their national language as "castellano,"
> >> not "espa�ol,"
> >
> > FWIW, I do not know of any Spaniards who object to "espa�ol" for the
> > generic language spoken by everyone around the world.... Castilian
> > they reserve for their own (pure) Spanish....
>
> Well, perhaps this is another, unintended example of a problem with
> incorporating the Ethnologue linguistic distinctions into other
> standards without serious review. If Spaniards consider their language
> sufficiently different from the Spanish spoken by Latin Americans,
> should there be separate codes for the two, or not? What about similar
> concerns with French vs. Canadian French, American vs. British English,
> etc.? How does this map intelligently to the existing (like it or not)
> ISO 639 standard? Standards intended for widespread use should address
> issues like these explicitly.
>
> -Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
>
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