Re: Official ISO 3166 country codes online

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Nov 28 1999 - 08:20:46 EST


Ar 10:32 -0800 1999-11-26, scríobh Michael Kaplan:

>More importantly, in cases where you might not localize into (for example)
>every single region that
>speaks Arabic, you must deal with the fact that any of (ar, ar-ae, ar-bh,
>ar-dz, ar-eg, ar-iq,
>ar-jo, ar-kw, ar-lb, ar-ly, ar-ma, ar-om, ar-qa, ar-sa, ar-sy, ar-tn,
>ar-ye) may come back to you

If the 2nd part of these is country codes, then they should be ar-AE, ar-BH
etc. by convention.

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