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
        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:
 
       <p>Little is known about the requirements for the naming of
        modifiers.  The following modifiers are currently used:


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+Last modified: Mon Aug  9 08:30:26 CEST 2004

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