Thread:Talk:Universal Language Selector/m x n language names

The page claims that one will only be able to search for language names in a few major languages. Why? I see no technical limitation, although it probably would require some special procedures - like loading the data in from PHP into the database for fast prefix search, or configuring the search with a different document type, and letting it find out about languages by crawling some special namespace. A little bit out of the ordinary but doable.

I'm just worried that a major-language approach would exclude important local cases like the Serbian name for Greek, or the Basque name for Spanish.

It is implicit that the list of language names in other languages is sparse. There may be no special Basque name for Navajo, but that's ok.