Question on ISO-639:1988

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Tue Jun 1 14:03:23 CEST 2004


At 10:20 +0100 2004-06-01, Debbie Garside wrote:

>LS 639 (proposed as ISO 639-6 - Aug 2004) deals very well with 
>language varieties - written and spoken (signed, audio and visual to 
>be included).  Anyone interested in the development of this new 
>standard may like to read the paper/workshop presented at LREC in 
>Lisbon in order to see exactly what is being proposed.  Visit 
><http://www.linguasphere.com>www.linguasphere.com - all comments and 
>critisism most welcome at this stage of development.  Please feel 
>free to sign up for the forum - although it has only just been 
>created.

My opposition to ISO 639-6, being based on a commercial product that 
I still have not seen (despite promises) remains unchanged.
-- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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