On 18 Apr 2011, at 21:42, Christian Galinski wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > I agree with Fran�ois: ISO 639-1 > - should not be increased without very stringent reasons, I understood that there was no rationale for any addition at all. > - may have to be modified, if necessary by a modification of a corresponding 3-letter symbol, Can you suggest an example of such a modification? > - very unlikely, but may have to be modified for other reasons, Can you suggest an example of such a modification? > and in that sense it is stabilized. That is not ISO formal stabilization (which we have for instance for ISO/IEC 8859-1) Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/