From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 19:08:34 EDT
> From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:verdy_p@wanadoo.fr]
> 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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