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I'm being offered a "Serbo-Croatian" translation and the site's captcha is broken. Might be unwise to judge authority on the subject just from that, however I decided not to read the article.


You are correct. It is wrong -very very wrong- to view programming advice as suspect merely because the content is offered in a language you don't speak.

EDIT: I am wrong. See below.


It's being offered in a language that does not exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes


It's being offered in a language that does not exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

Wikipedia has what appears to be quite a comprehensive article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian

Its scope is referred to as a "macrolanguage" here under ISO 639-3:

http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=hbs




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