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Bug 42327 - How to handle metalanguages/aliases


Summary:	How to handle metalanguages/aliases

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 42153

Product:	MediaWiki extensions
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	WikidataRepo (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Wikidata bugs

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Keywords:	i18n

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Reported:	2012-11-21 14:27 UTC by jeblad
Modified:	2013-01-26 12:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

See Also:	44379
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester:	---

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Description jeblad 2012-11-21 14:27:06 UTC

There are a few metalanguages (name for languages that isn't a real written language) and they need special handling. The same is also the case with a few aliases for other languages.

For example the code "no" (Norwegian) is both "nn" (nynorsk) and "nb" (bokmål) but is not a written language in itself. Often (esp on Wikipedia) it is interpreted as "nb".

I'm not sure how we shall handle it, it will probably lead to a lot of confusion if we try to maintain the metalanguages as independent languages.

There are also some language codes that are only aliases for other codes. The code "no" is often used as an alias for "nb.

Comment 1 abraham.taherivand 2012-11-22 11:48:24 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 42153 ***

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