[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-babel] docs: Note on language naming. (6a8f09a)

[Javier]

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commit 6a8f09a09a74267e6c397e6b47c718f0facbdf73
Author: Javier <email at localhost>
Date:   Wed May 11 17:13:20 2022 +0200

    Note on language naming.


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 * Misplaced line in `diagbox` with RTL and `luatex` (#43)
 * Caption names of ‘chapter’ and ‘part’ swapped in zh (#180).
 
+## Language naming with `babel` and the Unicode CLDR
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+In the coming few weeks (or months), `babel` will attempt to align the
+language names with those in the CLDR, although well established
+`babel` names that don’t conflict with the latter will be retained
+(like `british` or `austrian`). There have already been some moves in
+this direction in recent years (for example, `portuguese` instead of
+`portuges`, `indonesian` instead of `bahasai`, `malay` instead of
+`bahasam`, `french` instead of `frenchb`), but the goal is to recognize
+correctly any CLDR-based name.
+
+The number of languages with conflicting names is actually very
+reduced: `(n)german`, `swissgernam` and `serbian` are among them. How
+to deal with these cases without breaking old documents is under study.
+