On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 01:40:54PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
> At 13:58 +0200 2002-06-07, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>
> >Then why "swe"? "sve" is easier to relate to the 2-letter code
> >"sv" that many people already know.
> >
> >Anyway my question was more related to why the swedes made this
> >decision.
>
> Ah. I suppose the Swedes saw more sense in keeping to one
> three-letter identifier than having two, and that recognized that
> "swe" had been for many years implemented in a great many
> bibliographical databases worldwide.
I would actually like to hear some reasoning from the Swedes themselves,
and not some second-guessing.
Kind regards
keld
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