Indeed!

Debbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: 30 May 2008 09:39
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> Subject: Re: Request from Serbia to change bibliographic
> language codes in ISO 639-2
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> At 10:30 +0200 2008-05-30, Håvard  Hjulstad wrote:
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> >We should take this issue to a formal vote very soon indeed; I can
> >prepare it during the weekend. The vote should be whether or not the
> >JAC shall deprecate the identifiers "scr" and "scc", leaving
> "hrv" and
> >"srp" the main identifiers for Croatian and Serbian respectively.
> >
> >The identifiers "scr" and "scc" will not be deleted or
> "invalididated".
> >Indeed, if a system properly implements ISO 639 it should
> already allow
> >"scr"/"hrv"/"hr" and "scc"/"srp"/"sr" as synonyms for retreival
> >purposes. Whether a data owner wants to change old data or
> not, should
> >be little more than a "cosmetic" issue.
>
> Nicely said.
> --
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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