Re: [geolang-comment] One or two files for English and French?

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Murray Altheim scripsit:
> 
> Steve Pepper wrote:
> 
> > At 09:33 23/08/02 +0900, Mary Nishikawa wrote:
> > 
> >> From a maintenance point of view, it also might be better to keep the 
> >> French and English in separate files as they have done. Later on, 
> >> adding other languages would only be a matter of adding on more files.
> 
> 
> This could be quite a maintenance nightmare though. One versus hundreds
> (or even thousands) of files? Yuck.

In addition, English and French are there because they are ISO standard
languages.  The only other plausible candidate to appear is Russian,
and I doubt that anyone at ISO will bother.

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