Another update to registry

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Sat Oct 23 23:33:31 CEST 2004


> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of John Cowan

> > One of the unfortunate aspects of the registry being specified in
RFC
> > 3066bis as a semicolon-delimited text file is that there is no
provision
> > for descriptions that contain a semicolon, and ISO 639-2/RA seems to
be
> > doing this more and more often.
> 
> I suggest changing "; " in ISO 639-2 to " -- ".

What about using "|" in the registry where ISO 639-2 has "; "?


Peter Constable


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