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  thoggen/iso-639 README
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 iso-codes-0.46-1

 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'.

 For further information see

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



 ========== 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? =========

 The iso-codes package is actively maintained in debian, and the 
  version in thoggen will be updated regularly from that version.
  I will not patch the iso-639 translation files for thoggen, all
  improvements need to be made to the original package.

 If you are using debian as your distribution, you can use the
   'reportbug' tool to file a bug report against the 'iso-codes'
   package with your improvements.

 If you are using some other distribution, you can file your 
   improvements in the thoggen bug tracker and we will try to
   send them upstream (note that at the time of writing,
   ie. 4 April 2005, thoggen doesn't have a bug tracker yet;
   we will try to set one up Really Really Soon; please send
   stuff to the thoggen-devel mailing list instead).

   
 

