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  thoggen/iso-639 README
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 iso-codes-0.53-1

 Everything in this directory is based on the iso-codes package
  shipped by debian and is licensed under the same terms as that
  package, viz. the 'GNU Lesser General Public License' also 
  known as 'LGPL', Version 2.1.

 For further information see

  http://packages.debian.org/iso-codes

 Downloaded from:
 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/iso-codes/iso-codes_0.53.orig.tar.gz

 ========== Why? ==========

 The reason these language name translations are shipped separately
  from the thoggen translation files is that it is madness that each
  and every program that needs to show language names to the user has
  its own translation of these. This leads to inconsistencies and also
  leads to unnecessary duplication of translation work.

 The reason we include all this in the thoggen package instead of 
  relying on some external package that comes with the distro/OS
  is that not every distro ships the iso-codes package AFAIK.


 ========== How do I submit improvements? =========

 Improvements should be filed directly to the maintainers of
 iso-codes (which might be the debian project still, but I'm
 not entirely sure).

 

