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Dear colleagues, I have to admit that I was somewhat taken aback by Peter Constable's comments and the implications inherent in it. Peter has to some extent withdrawn from his original point, but the sum of it all is that the SIL Ethnologue coding would be the dominating coding practice, since he wants us to go out of our way to ensure that we just used those three-letter combinations that were not already taken by SIL. I have not looked into it retrospectively, but I feel that the already established sets contain very many instances of homonymy. You have to be able to convert between them, and then it does not matter that new homymes are added. There might be a need for some diplomacy, but we must stick to our rules, decisions and sets. Sten ********************************* Sten Hedberg Expert on cataloguing and standardisation Uppsala University Library POBox 510, S-751 20 UPPSALA Sweden Voice +46-(0)18 471 3970 Fax +46-(0)18 471 3941