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Michael Bauer wrote:
I see no reason to turn this down. LO should not be the arbiter over
language vs dialect debates and we have never to date intervened saying "you
must produce a standard first". Breton I'm sure was a come-first deal and
nobody asked if it was Gwened, KLT, Peurunvan, Falc'huneg (L or Gw) or
Etrerannyezhel.

Hi guys,

just to chime in a bit late & somewhat arbitrarily in the middle -
indeed TDF would not turn down reasonable requests for new l10n
projects (some technicalities aside, you mentioned ISO code already).

What I've read in this thread, I took it more as suggestions. Being
involved with another minority language (low-saxon/low-german, ISO
code nds), I can say with a bit of authority that when one starts from
zero, focusing on writing tools (spellchecker, grammar checker) is the
best use of scarce volunteer time. If you want to preserve a language
(at least speaking for central Europe), make it easy to write it
correctly. Everyone able to use a computer (again speaking of central
Europe) will have no problems using the UI or help in the respective
majority language.

After that, you can still ponder UI translations (for nds, we're not
gonna do that - at least all the technical terms would stay normal
German anyway, so it's a very high effort for almost no gain). :)

Cheers,

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