On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:24:05PM +0000, John Clews wrote:
> I think we urgently need to revisit the issue of "freezing" of ISO
> 639-1, and the decision not to allocate any more 2-letter codes in
> the light of new information below.
>
> I've also consulted the author of this request, as to why there is a
> need for 2-letter codes, when a 3-letter code exists. He has pointed
> out that the locale support in "glibc 2.2" (the heart of Linux
> systems) would accept only 2-letter and not 3-letter language codes
> codes in the locale definition, and that this is also true of IBM's
> "ICU" locales too.
This also applies to the ISO liale registry ISO/IEC 15897.
We are revising this standard to also use ISO 639-2 but we will
only have this revision completed 1 to 2 years from now.
Keld
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