RE: Alpha and/or Numeric

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 19:50:12 EST

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ISO 639-3 (code for comprehensive language coverage) and ISO 639-5 (code for language collections) will both use alpha-3 identifiers.

These two codes and the alpha-3 code will share a common alpha-3 identifier space. ISO 639-2/T and ISO 639-2/B will become subsets of the union of ISO 639-3 and ISO 639-5 -- a usage profile from that combined space. Eventually, it may all merge into a single standard.

Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf
> Of Marion Gunn
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:11 AM
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> Subject: Alpha and/or Numeric
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> Chuig: unicode@unicode.org
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> What's with the proposed new part(s) of ISO 639 - are new codes likely
> to go alpha or numeric or combo?
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> Anyone know?
> mg
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