From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 08:11:42 EDT
Samedi 12 juillet à 6h51, Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net> écrivit :
> The codes "iw" for Hebrew and "in" for Indonesian were deprecated
> FOURTEEN YEARS AGO. It is not accurate or fair to refer to them as
> "duplicates" of "he" and "id". The Registration Authority deprecates
> such codes, rather than deleting them, for backward compatibility with
> any data that might contain the old codes.
Just out of curiosity, why was « iw » deprecated ? Seems perfectly fine to
me.
And why was « he » chosen (Herero, Hemba, Hellenic Greek) ?
P.A.
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