localization: What is a language

From: David Barnsdale (daividb2000_at_spamfree.yahoo.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:06:46 GMT

Living as I do in Zagreb, I'm very
aware of how political is the
question "What is a language."

I'd be interested to know:

Who it
is who decides what gets the status
of a language for Linux.

Is there a list of all official languages
on the web?
(Alta Vista searches came up with nothing
for me)

I've noticed that Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian
will all default to English if a program doesn't
provide for those languages. Is there a way
for a user who has, say, set the environment to
Serbian to request that if a program has
no Serbian support but does have Croatian then
it should run in Croatian?

Thanks in advance
David

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