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    <B>andr&#233;</B> 
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<PRE>Wolfgang Bornath a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> 2010/10/4 Marc Par&#233;&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">marc at marcpare.com</A>&gt;:
</I>&gt;<i>    
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> The ISO country codes were devised for such situations. The recognized
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> German language code is now &quot;ger&quot; as seen by the ISO Country code charts.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>      
</I>&gt;<i> Thanks for this lecture, it's the first time I even hear/read about
</I>&gt;<i> those 3-letter codes. In all the years of internet usage, in web,
</I>&gt;<i> usenet, mail I never came across this. Whenever somebody referred to
</I>&gt;<i> Germany and the language German it was &quot;de&quot;. You never stop
</I>&gt;<i> learning...
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> So we should change all the URLs for the language-specific pages like
</I>&gt;<i> mageia.org/de into mageia.org/ger (and all other languages) same with
</I>&gt;<i> the IRC channels, unless the channels are country-related. I wonder
</I>&gt;<i> whether the users of such pages and channels know this. I don't think
</I>&gt;<i> that anybody in Germany would search for &quot;ger&quot;...
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> How would you suggest to solve this?
</I>&gt;<i>    
</I>Language codes are regulated by iso 639.
According to Wikipedia, there are 4 different codes available for the 
german language.
&quot;de&quot; is defined under iso 639-1
&quot;ger&quot; is a &quot;bibliographic&quot; code defined under 639-2, for compatibility 
with historical usage.  (As used in english, probably.)
&quot;deu&quot; is a &quot;technical&quot; code defined under 639-2, for other usages.
It is also the code defined under 639-3.
Note that 639-2 defines codes for *groups* of languages.

Since for IRC usage, one is definitely NOT seeking compatibility with 
historical (probably english language) usage, &quot;ger&quot; should NOT be used.

If I were you, I would continue to use &quot;de&quot;.  But you could always 
switch to &quot;deu&quot; if you want a 3-letter code.

- Andr&#233; (andre999)
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