Info on locale naming.

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     <h2>How to choose the locale file name</h2>
 
-    - how to choose the file name
+      <p>Locale names consist of three parts.  The language code, the
+       country/region code, and the optional modifier.  The format is
+       language_REGION@modifier.  The language code is a code from
+       ISO 639.  The two-letter code is prefered, but a three letter
+       code is accepted if no two-letter code is available.  The
+       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>
+
+      <p>Little is known about the requirements for the naming of
+       modifiers.  The following modifiers are currently used:
+       abegede, cyrillic, euro and saaho.  This might indicate that
+       lower case letters are prefered in modifier names.</p>
+
+
+      <ul>
+       <li><a href="http://www.unicode.org/onlinedat/countries.html">ISO 3166</a></li>
+       <li><a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/">ISO 639</a>
+      </ul>
 
     <h2>Category order</h2>
 
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     <address><a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">Petter Reinholdtsen</a></address>
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