At 10:30 +0200 2008-05-30, Håvard Hjulstad wrote:
>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.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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