> From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> In fact I would like to see that "Traditional" and "Simplified"
Chinese
> are
> distinct languages in the same family. And an application would better
use
> "zht"
> and "zhs" language codes to make the distinction, so that "zh" would
> become an
> identifier for a family of Han-written languages, rather than a
language
> identifier, and so a legacy code.

In ISO 639-3, zh will be considered a macro-language identifier. But zhs
and zht would not be good ideas, and will not be considered for ISO 639
or for RFC 3066.


Peter Constable

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