I'm looking for a list of languages written using their native script/character set. Something like this, but with the native-script version too: http://l10n.fedoraproject.org/teams/ Do we have such a list? Anyone know where I can find one? == Background == Working through a bug[1] about language names on the Fedora 10 release notes pages: http://localhost/docs/release-notes/ http://localhost/docs/release-notes/f10/ Initially we just displayed the language code, which people complained was hard to understand. We used to use the actual language name in native language and character set: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/ People complained about that, too, because of strange HEX blocks they saw when they did not have the character set installed. I thought that for a long list, we could do a combination: Language ([English word for language], [lang code]) Such as: Español (Spanish, es) 日本語 (Japanese, ja) Ελληνικά (Greek, el) Thanks - Karsten [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472919 -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41

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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Pardon my reply to self ... > > Right after I sent this, Paul suggested 'native names for languages' > as a Google search term, and that seems to give me what I need. > > Sorry for the noise. :) > I would use such lists with some reservation though, as they are usually composed by other enthusiasts and not necessarily language experts. For example, the list in the first Google hit http://rishida.net/names/languages.html puts down native names for Serbian starting with capitals - this is wrong since langauge in most Slavic languages is just an adjective and written in lowercase as such (similar mistake for Macedonian, Croatian, Slovenian, etc.)

I have asked recently about where gdm tucked away it's list [1], and have since peeked in the source code: it looks like the list is no more, they try to work it out real-time from available glibc locales, /usr/share/locale contents, and /usr/share/xml/iso-codes (with varying degrees of success..). Anaconda's list, iso-codes xml files, or Wikipedia could be better sources.