<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 7 Sep 2008, at 01:18, Peter Constable wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Frank Ellerman wrote:<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">IMO decreeing that RFC 4646 and older tags are obsoleted</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">by whatever ISO 639-3 says is no option. There will be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">applications limiting themselves to RFC 4646 languages,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">all ISO 639-1/2 warts included. Interpreting such tags<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">as defined in ISO 639-3 can result in unclear gibberish.<br></blockquote><br>Alpha-3 language IDs that are in ISO 639-2 and the alpha-3 counterparts to alpha-2 IDs in ISO 639-1 represent the same semantics in ISO 639-3 as the items in ISO 639-1/-2.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've heard enough, thank you all. My ruling (because Doug asked me to rule on this) is that the ISO 639-3 field should be sufficient. We do not need to repeat ISO 639-2 fields and we do not need to repeat ISO 639-1 fields. 639-3 is a proper superset, and is more accurate than the others.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If anyone wants to make this all tidier, they should talk to the 639 Registration Authorities and ask them to harmonize their fields. It is not our job to do that here.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Doug, make it so. </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Everson Mono'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: '-webkit-monospace'; ">Michael Everson * <a href="http://www.evertype.com/">http://www.evertype.com</a></span></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>