ISO 3166-2 and GA-UK

Keld Jørn Simonsen keld at dkuug.dk
Mon Nov 7 14:04:37 CET 2005


On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:40:23AM +0000, Marion Gunn wrote:
> Scríobh r&d afrac:
> > ...
> > The confusion over "GB"/"UK" - for all this time, and still for a
> > while - is the same as for langtags...
> 
> Exactly! 
> 
> That is why the need that LTRU and IETF members support GA-UK.
> 
> Irish language communities have every right to be angry with langtag
> controllers refusing us the same basic rights happily accorded to Saami
> communities (who are similarly spread over various dot FI, dot NO, dot
> RU and dot SE email/webtags). 
> 
> This should be easy - all it requires is goodwill across ISO members
> generally towards NSAI's and BSI's communities of Irish speakers. 
> 
> Right now (November 2005) langtag controllers oppose this, offering as
> their excuse that GA-UK would require ISO 3166-2 to be updtated, but, by
> the same logic,  (with ISO 3166-2 currently being updated right now),
> they can support that right now, if they want to.  
> 
> It is that simple. In the above, I would especially welcome Harald's support.
> 
> To recap (for non-Europeans), "UK of GB & NI" means exactly that and
> nothing more is required than to facilitate (via ISO 3166-2) assigning
> GA-UK to serve Irish speakers north of the border in my country,
> matching GA-IE south of it.

Why dont you use ga-GB for this purpose? GB is the ISO 3166 code for the
nation in question, including Northern Ireland.

best regards
Keld


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