We are making the changes as requested. The only exception is under -sh we
are removing the word "withdrawn", since the top of the document already
states that a leading hyphen means that the code has been deprecated. It
would have been redundant to add "deprecated" here.
Rebecca
On Fri, 12 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Håvard Hjulstad wrote:
> Thanks to Rebecca and Michael for excellent publication of the changes!
>
> I have four comments/corrections:
>
> (1) One item is missing: Tahitian was given a two-letter identifier on
> 2000-02-18: ty. The corresponding entry should read:
> ty tah tah Tahitian tahitien 2000-02-18
>
> (2) Northern Sami is included twice: under se/sme/sme 2000-02-18, and
> further down with two-letter identifier only dated "1989". The correct year
> for the latter entry should be 1998-08, as the language was in fact included
> in 639-1 then. However, it was re-visited on 2000-02-18, and I would think
> that the latest date should be sufficient. Should you wish to keep both, the
> date needs to be corrected to "1998-08".
>
> (3) Three more items are dated "1998-09-09". The meeting was in August, and
> "1998-08" would be more precise.
>
> (4) The identifier "-sh" is said to be "withdrawn". In my database I have
> called it "deprecated". It most certainly is a different type of
> "withdrawal" from iw (Hebrew), in (Indonesian), and ji (Yiddish). Personally
> I would prefer the text: "[deprecated; use: bs, hr, sr]".
>
> At the same time I would like to announce that my MS Access database is
> downloadable in an updated and zipped version (with quite a lot of updates):
> http://www.rtt.org/Iso639-1/ISO639.zip
>
> Best regards,
> Håvard
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rebecca S. Guenther [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 5:01 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Newsletter
> >
> > I've put up the change notice for ISO 639. See:
> >
> > http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html
> >
> > Thanks to Michael Everson for letting me use his coding.
> >
> > Rebecca
>
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