On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 08/23/2002 04:54:58 AM "Doug Ewell" wrote:
>
> >For those who like to keep up on such things, there have been recent
> >changes to the code lists of two important standards related to
> >internationalization -- ISO 639 (language codes) and ISO 3166-2 (codes
> >for country subdivisions).
>
> In addition to the two new code elements in ISO 639-2, there's another
> development of interest in relation to language coding: ISO/TC 37 has
> begun working toward development of a new part to this standard, to be
> designated ISO 639-3, that will provide 3-letter identifiers for all known
> languages. The relationship to part 2 will be that this the
> individual-language code elements in part 2 will be a subset of part 3
> (part 2 will continue to have collective-language identifiers but part 3 will
> not). The reason for the subsetting relationship of part 2 to part 3
> (rather than just adding a bunch of things to part 2) is that some user
> communities (e.g. bibliographers) have indicated a need to restrict
> individual-language identifiers to only developed languages with
> significant bodies of literature. I'm anticipating a time frame of about
> one year for this to be completed (assuming the process goes smoothly).
>
>
>
> - Peter
>
>
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> Peter Constable
>
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Monday, August 26, 2002
Peter,
I congratulate you and others who reached this reasonable solution.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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