Re: [PATCH] perform sanity check in po.m4

[John Cowan]

Bruno Haible scripsit:

> If there's no solution in the code, the solution is the doc. I'm going to
> list in the gettext manual the most important among the ISO 639-2 language
> codes. The one for Klingon is not among this list because it doesn't have
> a sufficient number of speakers.

Do you mean 639-2?  639-1 lists 2-letter codes and is preferred for languages
which have one.  639-2 lists 3-letter codes and is a superset of 639-1.
So the 639-1 for German is "de", which is preferred to "deu" from 639-2,
but "nds" (Low Saxon) has only a 639-2 code.

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