From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 25 2005 - 07:25:18 CDT
> From: Donald Z. Osborn [mailto:dzo@bisharat.net]
> > Actually, it has been there all along...
> actually it was finding nothing in the ISO-639-1 column for Bambara,
Fulah,
> and
> Igbo (bm, ff & ig) that prompted my original query that started this
whole
> thread.
My apologies; I misunderstood your statement as saying that no alpha-2
IDs were listed.
> Coincidentally the W3C site also has (had? - haven't checked back
since a
> few
> days ago) a list lacking some of the African ISO-639-1 alpha 2's. Must
be
> that
> a bunch of these were added more recently (c. 2000?) than this
particular
> edition?
The changes to ISO 639-2 are documented on the LOC site -- the official
site for ISO 639-2.
I'll repeat my rant about people posting lists of ISO 639 identifiers:
everyone would be much better off if they pointed instead to the
official ISO 639 sites.
Peter Constable
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