A proposed solution for descriptions (was: Re: ISO 639 - New item approved - N'Ko)

Keld Jørn Simonsen keld at dkuug.dk
Sun Jun 11 22:48:27 CEST 2006


On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:02:16AM +0200, Vidar Larsen wrote:
> 
> One example of undesirable effects would be "Norwegian Bokmål"  
> mapping to "Norwegian Bokmal".

To me that wold be a wrong example, Bokmål should map to Bokmaal, and
then the confusion with "mal" is not applicable. "å" in general should
map to "aa" as this is a well known convention for the languages that
use the "å" letter, such as Norwegian, Danish and Swedish.

Best regards
Keld


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