More info on locale names.

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        country/region code is a code from ISO 3166.  If the language
        or region in question is missing in the ISO standard, one need
        to get the ISO standard updated before the locale will be
-       included in glibc.</p>
+       included in glibc.  If one can't convince the ISO 639
+       maintainers that your language exists (and thus need a
+       language code), the glibc maintainers will refuse to add the
+       locale.  In addition, the glibc maintainers seem to refuse
+       "artificial languages" like Esperanto and Lojban, even if they
+       got a ISO 639 code.</p>
 
       <p>Little is known about the requirements for the naming of
        modifiers.  The following modifiers are currently used:
@@ -133,7 +138,7 @@
     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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