[SoaS] EU language requirements for SoaS

[samy boutayeb]

Hi Peter, Sean,

Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 21:23:31 +0100
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> Subject: [SoaS] EU language requirements for SoaS
> To: Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
> Cc: Sugar on a Stick List <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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> Hey Sean,
> 
> During the SoaS-3 retrospective you agreed that you would do the
> Feature request for the EU language requirements and I agreed I would
> implement the technical side of the it. So the feature freeze for
> SoaS-4 (and the feature being in a mostly implemented and testable
> state) is July 27th which gives the two of us less than 3 weeks to get
> this in a reasonable state. The problem is that I know very little
> about EU commission accepted languages (queue jokes about Australians
> and languages other than English) other than I believe they are all
> Latin or Greek based and hence should have reasonable support already
> in upstream Fedora and we'll not need to deal with issues like Right
> to Left support. What is the state of this feature request so I know
> whether I need to keep it on my already massively busy schedule for
> July?
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 

You may find a quick list of the 23 official EU languages here:
http://europa.eu/abc/european_countries/languages/index_en.htm

For more info about the names, codes of the EU countries, including the candidates states, see:
http://publications.europa.eu/code/pdf/370000en.htm

The language codes are based on the ISO standard 639-2 
(Codes for the representation of names of languages-- Part 2.):
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php

HTH, regards from Europe ;-)

samy