Re: [OT] Re: ISO 639 "duplicate" codes

2003-07-12 Thread Michael Everson
At 10:43 -0700 2003-07-12, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote: Of course, LCIDs have limitations too (no need to enumerate them here at length). Just pointing out that solving one problem will almost invariably run you into others Such as describing Irish as "gd-ie", which we do not like over h

Re: [OT] Re: ISO 639 "duplicate" codes

2003-07-12 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Of course, if this is your belief, you are not alone. The ISO 3166 > Maintenance Agency has now spent five months debating and voting on the > question of what new codes for "Serbia and Montenegro" should replace > "YU" and "YUG" used for "Yugoslavia," whi

[OT] Re: ISO 639 "duplicate" codes

2003-07-12 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: > I was sure also that "iw" was not used today, until I found that it is > still used in Java on Windows, for legacy reasons... Creating a > resource bundle in Hebrew with the code "he" was simply... ignored. So > I had to rename it to "iw". > > Shamely, on Linux or various