Re: ISO 639 "duplicate" codes (was: Re: Ligatures in Turkish andAzeri, was: Accented ij ligatures)

2003-07-15 Thread Addison Phillips [wM]
Phillipe wrote: >>I hae tried several times to do it. It does not work: you may >>effectively remove some tables your don't need, but trying >>to extract just the normalizer is a real nightmare. I tried it >>in the past, and abondonned: too tricky to maintain, and I >>retried it recently (one mont

Re: ISO 639 "duplicate" codes (was: Re: Ligatures in Turkish andAzeri, was: Accented ij ligatures)

2003-07-15 Thread Addison Phillips [wM]
Phillipe wrote: >>I hae tried several times to do it. It does not work: you may >>effectively remove some tables your don't need, but trying >>to extract just the normalizer is a real nightmare. I tried it >>in the past, and abondonned: too tricky to maintain, and I >>retried it recently (one mont

Re: ISO 639 "duplicate" codes (was: Re: Ligatures in Turkish andAzeri, was: Accented ij ligatures)

2003-07-12 Thread Michael Everson
At 08:11 -0400 2003-07-12, Patrick Andries wrote: Just out of curiosity, why was « iw » deprecated ? Seems perfectly fine to me. And why was « he » chosen (Herero, Hemba, Hellenic Greek) ? Iwrit (iw), being a German transliteration of the name of the Hebrew language, and Jiddisch (ji) were both t