Dear Rebecca
In message <[log in to unmask]>
via [log in to unmask], Haavard Hjulstad puts the matter very succintly,
at the end of his email:
> I don't see any great problems if LoC also in the future encodes their
> Norwegian holdings as "nor" only.
>
> CONCLUSION: I am very much against the proposed un-doing of a final
> decision that was made two weeks ago. I am also against the implicit
> proposal to expand the coding mechanisms at this point in time,
> unless a thorough study and work is done. The expansion of the coding
> mechanism should be on the agenda in connection with the revision
> process some years from now.
I wholeheartedly agree with Haavard about LoC implementations
(the code "nor" has not been deprecated) and with his conclusion.
Best regards
John Clews
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Committee Chair of ISO/TC46/SC2: Conversion of Written Languages;
Committee Member of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC22/WG20: Internationalization;
Committee Member of CEN/TC304: Information and Communications
Technologies: European Localization Requirements
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ISO/TC37: Terminology)
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