Phonetic orthographies

[Peter Constable]

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

> ISO-639-3 does
> provide much more and clearly needed granularity and is not easily
> translated into the IANA language subtags. Given that the ISO-639-3 will
> be soon official, I hope this will coincide with an authorised list that
> maps these ISO codes to what the IETF wants us to use.

This is precisely what is being address in a revision to RFC 4646 that is currently in progress -- the most significant change being made is to make ISO 639-3 a source for language subtags in IETF language tags just like ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2.



Peter Constable