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iso code

Asked by dinar qurbanov

in https://answers.launchpad.net/rosetta/+question/14915 is written:
>"be" is ISO 639 code for Belarusian, and @latin part is taken from GNU
>libc locale for Belarusian in Latin which is named "be_BY@latin")
and
>What you need to do is to create a locale, for example fr_FR@alternativewriting or fr_FR@ortograf
>or similar. "Locales" are being created inside eg. GNU libc or Debian "belocs" package.

"be" is iso code, but what is the "BY"? and "FR"?
if tatar language iso code is "tt" what that part is for it? "TT"?

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Best Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#1

BY, FR and similar are ISO 3166 country codes, while "be" and "fr" are ISO 639 language codes ("fr" and "FR" are the same just by coincidence). There is already an tt_RU locale on Ubuntu systems.

If you are doing Tatar translations, you usually don't care about the country code, so you are probably interested only in "tt".

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dinar qurbanov (qdinar) said : 		#2

yes, i already thinked it (by myself) too, that it means country, because "by" is belarussiya domain name.