For the record, in my view, H�vard's suggestion below > "14 alpha-2 identifiers were approved in 1999 and included > in ISO 639-1:2002. Regretfully these identifiers have been missing in > earlier versions of the tables on this web site. They have now been > included." seems to fit the bill, and would appear to be sufficient action and wording. No furthe documentation seems necessary. John In message <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes: > All these alpha-2 identifiers have been published in ISO 639-1:2002, and > they were also included in drafts since 1999. The errors on the web site > in > very unfortunate, and I want to apologize that I haven't discovered them > before. But it still is "just" an error. Can we do the following: In > document http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html the 14 > alpha-2 identifiers are added in their chronological place (between 1998 > and > 2000). A separate text is added after the main table. The text could say > something like: > "14 alpha-2 identifiers were approved in 1999 and include> d > in ISO 639-1:2002. Regretfully these identifiers have been missing in > earlier versions of the tables on this web site. They have now been > included." > > H�vard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rebecca S. Guenther [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 8. januar 2003 21:57 > To: H�vard Hjulstad > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Missing alpha-2 identifiers > > > To members of the ISO639 JAC: someone brought to my attention that there > was a 2-character code for "Divehi" in the 639-1 revision that was not on > the master code list. Thus I started a discussion with Havard (see > below). Yesterday we added "dv" while Havard looked at what else was > missing. > > When we put up the ISO 639-2 site and included the 2-character code, we > started with the document that Michael had up as I recall. So these new > ones were probably missing from that. Apparently it wasn't noticed before. > > Someone wrote me today having just noticed that "dv" had appeared and > questioned how we could add any 2-character codes to an existing > 3-character one given the statement that we previously made. I suppose > this was an error of documentation; was there an official mechanism to > publicize these new 2-character codes that came in as part of the 639-1 > revision? > > In any case, if we now all of a sudden include these, we will have to > explain it. So I suppose the best thing would be to add them to the chang> e > page. I'm not sure which date to include; it will be added now, but the > effective date would be 1999. Have these been published anywhere except i> n > the revision that went out for ballot? > > Any comments on how to handle this? > > Rebecca > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, [iso-8859-1] H�vard Hjulstad wrote: > > > Dear Rebecca, > > > > I have compared the file > > http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langcodes.html with a > corresponding > > printout from my database. I thought that we had already covered these > > issues, but there remain some discrepancies of two kinds: (1) Missing > > alpha-2 identifiers for 14 items. (2) Differences in the English and > French > > names of some languages. > > > > Below I have listed all the missing alpha-2 identifiers. Those should b> e > > straight-forward. Later I will make an overview of the differences in > names, > > as some of them might need to be looked at more closely. > > > > There is also one alphabetical error in this list: The order non nor > nno > > nob should be changed to nno nob non nor . > > > > Here are the missing alpha-2 identifiers: > > > > aka = ak = Akan > > ava = av = Avaric > > bam = bm = Bambara > > cre = cr = Cree > > div = dv = Divehi [as previously clarified] > > ewe = ee = Ewe > > ful = ff = Fulah > > ibo = ig = Igbo > > kau = kr = Kanuri > > kon = kg = Kongo > > lub = lu = Luba-Katanga > > lug = lg = Ganda > > oji = oj = Ojibwa > > ven = ve = Venda > > > > All these alpha-2 identifiers are identified as "Finalized 1999" in my > > database, which basically means that they were included during the > revision, > > before the JAC became involved. > > > > Best regards, > > H�vard > > > > ------------------------- > > H�vard Hjulstad mailto:[log in to unmask] > > Solfallsveien 31 > > NO-1430 �s, Norway > > tel: +47 64963684 & +47 64944233 > > mob: +47 90145563 > > http://www.hjulstad.com/havard/ > > ------------------------- -- John Clews, Keytempo Limited (Information Management), 8 Avenue Rd, Harrogate, HG2 7PG Email: [log in to unmask] tel: +44 1423 888 432; Committee Member of ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC22/WG20: Internationalization; Committee Member of ISO/TC37/SC2/WG1: Language Codes