Re: [Foundation-l] three-letter language codes

2010-06-30 Thread Milos Rancic
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

Re: [Foundation-l] three-letter language codes

2010-06-30 Thread Nathan
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

Re: [Foundation-l] three-letter language codes

2010-06-30 Thread Mark Williamson
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

Re: [Foundation-l] three-letter language codes

2010-06-30 Thread Gerard Meijssen
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

[Foundation-l] three-letter language codes

2010-06-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
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