> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Philippe Verdy
> In fact if ISO 3066 is later standardized, the designation and use of locales > could become its own API supporting standard identifiers. I really don't want to get into this discussion but can't let this point go by: RFC 3066 (not ISO) is not a specification for *locale* identification. It is a specification for *language* identification. There are many possible cases in which this distinction is very important. > I think that the CLDR database is extremely important for software > implementations, because it avoids some caveats that come from other unstable > standards such as ISO 3166 and ISO 639. ISO 639 is not unstable. It is an open code set that is being added to over time, but I don't think that should be referred to as unstable -- that term suggests other things. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division
