RE: Question about new locale language tags

From: Michael Maxwell (mmaxwell@casl.umd.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2006 - 20:51:45 CST

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> in Taiwan, we have many different local languages, but currently only
> one Locale (zh_TW). According to the ISO639 information, the 'zh'
> language tag refers to all "Chinese" languages together, including
> Minnan and Hakka.

This is presumably ISO 639-2, which had many such problems. ISO 639-3 is based on the Ethnologue codes (with some modifications), plus codes for long extinct and made-up languages (including everyone's favorite, Klingon).

Mike Maxwell
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