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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik van der Poel) Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.l10n,netscape.public.mozilla.i18n Subject: [Fwd: ISO 639 language codes available on the web] Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:03:41 GMT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some info about language codes (e.g. en, eng). Erik --------------97868CF12CC5826E89DA0284 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from shemail.mcom.com ([205.217.237.178]) by dredd.mcom.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FTO5VD00.EPS; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 02:47:37 -0700 Received: from xwing.netscape.com (xwing.mcom.com [207.200.76.40]) by shemail.mcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA15895; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 02:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www19.w3.org (www19.w3.org [18.29.0.19]) by xwing.netscape.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3R9lZx27693; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 02:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by www19.w3.org (8.9.0/8.9.0) id FAA25068; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 05:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 05:40:34 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58.J Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:23:25 +0900 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Martin J. Duerst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: ISO 639 language codes available on the web Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/1583 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 The Library of Congress, the registration authority for ISO 639-2 (3-letter language codes) has put up some very useful pages: >The ISO 639-2 standard is at the official ISO 639-2/RA Web site: >http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html > >The tables arranged by ISO 639-2 code include the ISO 639-1 code as well: >http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/termcodes.html >(arranged by ISO 639-2/T (terminology) code) >http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/bibcodes.html >(arranged by ISO 639-2/B (bibliographic) code) > >For further information see the ISO 639-2/RA home page: >http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ Changes to ISO 639 and ISO 639-2: http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html Please note that currently, only two-letter codes should be used in HTML, HTTP, and XML. To be able to use three- letter codes, these standards have to be updated. I have updated the W3C page on language codes at http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTML-tags.html to point to these resources. Regards, Martin. --------------97868CF12CC5826E89DA0284-- == END forwarded message ==