New page: locale naming.

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docs/guides/locale-naming.md

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+# Locale naming
+
+*Draft*
+
+For the naming of the locales at the user level, the following
+conventions will be used. 
+
+Languages, and therefore the corresponding files, are named with the
+English name, lowercased and without spaces: `northernkurdish`. Hyphens
+separate other fields, like script and region: `serbian-latin`,
+`spanish-mexico`. They are taken from the CLDR.
+
+Wherever the CLDR doesn’t provide a name (eg, “Medieval Latin”), the
+pattern followed in practice for other names is applied, namely, use
+the ‘natural’ form in English: `medievallatin`. They should be
+preferably based on the description field in the
+[IANA](https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry)
+registry (eg, `polytonicgreek`), although some simplifications can be
+necessary, because some names are “too” descriptive.
+
+A few locales with a region or a script have in the CLDR a more precise
+name. For example, `ro-MD` is “Moldavian”. They will be normalized in
+`babel` in the next few releases.
+
+

docs/news/whats-new-in-babel-3.75.md

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 minimal overhead. This should work for most languages, but see the
 following section.
 
+Because of the way this feature works, problems are very unlikely, but
+there is switch as a package option to turn the new behavior off
+(`ensureinfo=off`).
+
 ## Language naming with `babel` and the Unicode CLDR
 
 In the coming few weeks (or months), `babel` will attempt to align the