[tex-live] language, lang, la (was: testing TL'08)

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:09:46PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:

>     It would really be a good thing if TeX Live could
>     have a clear naming policy for languages.
> 
> I can appreciate IETF tags as the reference, but I confess I don't see
> where such a policy would apply,

To give programs like `texdoc' a chance to find documentation
in the right language (e.g. "LANG=de texdoc foobar" should find
foobar in German if available otherwise in the original (English?)
language.)

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>