OT: Language picking

[John Cowan]

Well, here's the idea I came up with.  Feel free to pick holes in it.

First, a list of countries to choose from.  This list is long,
but people are used to it, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

Next, a couple of lists to choose one of (using radio buttons, say):
the home languages (English for the U.K., e.g.), the indigenous living
languages, the dead languages, the immigrant languages.  That nails
down the language.

Then some more lists to choose one of; the generic form of the language
(no country code), the form used in the country you picked in the
first place, other countries where the language is used, other countries
where supposedly it isn't used.

So you pick US, find English in the indigenous living languages,
and then you can pick en, en-us, en-* for likely countries, and
then oddities like en-fr, en-dk, etc.

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in any language.  --Allen Brown                 cowan at ccil.org