Language Tags and Character Sets
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Tue Jun 3 09:10:38 CEST 2003
Marion Gunn <mgunn at egt dot ie> wrote:
>> Then English in each area can be correctly labelled: "en-IE" is
>> general English as spoken in the whole Ireland.
>> ...
>
> That is what I would like to use for Hiberno-English, if it has not
> already been registered.
You can use it right away. Tags that consist of an ISO 639-1 or -2
language code followed by a hyphen and an ISO 3166-1 country code don't
have to be registered. You can just tack them together.
So, it's en-IE. Good, I'm glad we worked that out.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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