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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Mark Crispin wrote: what makes the French more
important than the Russians or the Chinese?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>I believe it's the underlying standards based on the
"languages of ISO". The "languages of ISO" are English, French and Russian -
though I'm not aware of too many trilingual ISO standards. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>On the remainder of the mail, I believe consensus
previously has been that a fully multi-national/multi-lingual registry of names
is not the current underlying goal of this effort. Of course, with sufficient
efforts and pressures through ISO - and given elements being including in ISO
639-4 - perhaps this might become a consideration in future. Both Debbie and I
have a current copy of -4 that I'm sure we could feed commentary back to ISO
through BSI from interested parties.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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