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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 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Request from Serbia to change bibliographic > language codes in ISO 639-2 > > 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. > -- > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com > > > >