Re: Bug #1962, localedef unable to handle unknown language codes

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>]

[Ulrich Drepper]
> If the license allows it and the file look reasonable, sure.
> Somebody needs to submit them.

Sounds good.  I'm in contact with the original author, and he told me
he would update the files on FTP with the latest version this weekend.

Should the locales have three letter names?  There are no other locale
with three letter language codes in localedata/locales/ now.  Is it ok
to skip 'lang_ab' when the language is missing a two letter language
code?

(I guess the question I should be asking is "where is a good
documentation on the format of locale files?".  Anyone know?)

> The registrar of ISO 639 (Library of Congress if I remember
> correctly) has to be persuade to allocate an entry.  This is the
> sanity check I'm using.  If you cannot persuade the ISO 639
> maintainer I'll not add it either.  Google for ISO 639 to find a
> contact address.

OK, I'll remember that.  In this case it was no problem, as all the
languages already was defined in ISO 639.