Jekke Bladt wrote:
The language/country codes are part of an ISO standard which designates
the English of Great Britain as en-UK.
No.
1) The two-part language/country code is IETF RFC 1766, not an ISO standard.
2) IETF RFC 1766 specifies the use of ISO 639 for the language part and
ISO 3166 alpha-2 for the country part.
3) ISO 3166 alpha-2 specifies "GB" for the United Kingdom.
"en-GB" is correct. "en-UK" is wrong (which is not to say that it is not
to be encountered in the wild).
(The use of ".uk" as a top-level Internet domain was a mistake. A brief
attempt was made to replace it with ".gb", but it failed utterly.)
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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