On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
wrote:
> Did anyone ever consider completely migrating WMF projects to
> three-letter language codes? Currently two-letter ISO 639-1 code are
> used whenever possible and three-letter ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-3 codes
> are used when a two-letter code i
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Amir,
>
> I think this is a good idea. For the sake of consistency, we should
> choose a single standard to follow rather than a hodge-podge of newer
> standards, older (although still valid) standards, and ad hoc codes we
> made up on the
Amir,
I think this is a good idea. For the sake of consistency, we should
choose a single standard to follow rather than a hodge-podge of newer
standards, older (although still valid) standards, and ad hoc codes we
made up on the spot (als, nrm) and custom codes (bat-smg, roa-tara,
roa-rup, fiu-vr
Hoi,
In the ISO-639-6 there will be two three and four character codes for
linguistic entities. English for instance will be known by its two character
code en and not eng.
Also in the RFC about such things two characters are used in preference to
three characters.
The point here is that by confo
Did anyone ever consider completely migrating WMF projects to
three-letter language codes? Currently two-letter ISO 639-1 code are
used whenever possible and three-letter ISO 639-2 or ISO 639-3 codes
are used when a two-letter code is not available.
Among the three-letter codes currently having Wi