Registration of el-Latn language tag

Tex Texin tex at xencraft.com
Thu Sep 29 12:18:23 CEST 2005


ISO 3166 says GB stands for United Kingdom.
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html

2 letter codes are not always abbreviations....




Marion Gunn wrote:
> 
> Scríobh Tex Texin:
> > ...
> > Personally, I disagree with your en-GB example. From a linguistic
> > standpoint, maybe it is english from the UK....
> 
> No maybe about it, Tex - you are right to cast doubt on what would be a
> linguistic and geographical impossibility, because 'GB' only means
> 'Great Britain', which is a different geo/ling entity from "UK" which
> means "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (a
> matter already dealt with years ago on this and/or related lists).
> mg
> 
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