We'll make this correction.
Rebecca
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, [utf-8] Håvard Hjulstad wrote:
> I agree that something like this should be done. Logically, the note "[jw
> published in error; withdrawn]" doesn't belong in the English name column.
> May be:
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> -jw
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> jav
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> Javanese
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> javanais
>
> 1989
>
> "jw" published in error; withdrawn
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> Håvard
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> Håvard Hjulstad
> Standard Norge / Standards Norway
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Constable [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 14. januar 2005 23:12
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FW: lang code question: jw
>
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> There is some confusion out in the world regarding the alpha-2 symbol "jw"
> in relation to Javanese. See the message below as an example.
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> The history is that, in ISO 639:1988, there was an error in Table 1
> (Alphabetical list of two-letter language symbols): it showed "jw" for
> Javanese rather than "jv". Tables 2 and 3 as well as the Annex correctly
> showed "jv". The error was documented in ISO 639-1:2002.
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> Nothing is mentioned at
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html
> <http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html> about "jw" since
> it was never considered assigned, hence never changed. But one can't easily
> find *any* documentation regarding "jw" on the ISO 639 sites (as far as I
> know, there isn't any). Thus, there isn't any way for people to get
> clarification about "jw".
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> I'd like to suggest that we add the following entry at the end of the list
> of additions/changes to ISO 639 so that "jw" is documented:
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>
> -jw
>
> jav
>
> Javanese [jw published in error; withdrawn]
>
> javanais
>
> 1989
>
> Dep
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>
> Peter
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Davis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 1:47 PM
> To: Peter Constable
> Cc: Doug Ewell; John Cowan; Addison Phillips
> Subject: lang code question: jw
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> We have code in ICU that maps obsolete codes, and it maps jw to jv. I was
>
> checking lstreg, http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html#ij,
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> and http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html and I couldn't
>
> find jw. But I see it in google
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22iso+639%22+jw, such as in SIL:
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> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_iso639.asp?code=jw
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> If it was indeed a language code, it sounds like it is mistakenly missing
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> from http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html and thus from
>
> lstreg.
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> Mark
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