[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28858: New installation: Language Selector

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#28858: New installation: Language Selector
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 Reporter:  joedolson        |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  4.0
Component:  Upgrade/Install  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback     |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Comment (by joedolson):

 The official guidelines on what you should use for language codes are
 quite complicated: ISO-639 2-letter codes if available, 3-letter codes if
 not. I believe that this is because of support; the 2-letter codes are
 more globally supported than the 3-letter codes.

 If we use the ISO-639-3 codes, that would give us the greatest coverage
 for language pronunciation. If a language doesn't have an ISO-639 code,
 then we would just have to fallback to whatever we could; screen readers
 aren't going to support those missing codes anyway, so it's not a
 realistic option to provide the "right" code - it doesn't exist.

 I haven't looked at the data in the translations API; is it reasonable to
 have a fallback series: ISO 639-1 if available, ISO 639-3 if not?

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