Re: [OT] Re: Country codes

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 00:43:37 EDT

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Kevin Brown <graphity at adelaide dot on dot net> wrote:

> Any confusion between language codes and country codes is now
> virtually impossible because all the major language codes (ISO 639-2,
> MARC and SIL) now use THREE letters instead of two eg the ISO 639-2
> code for the Korean language is kor.

RFC 3066, the standard for language tags on the Internet, *requires* the
use of ISO 639-1 (two-letter) codes instead of ISO 639-2 (three-letter)
codes whenever possible.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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