Sample IANA language subtag registry

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Thu Jul 8 02:24:48 CEST 2004


At 17:02 -0700 2004-07-07, Peter Constable wrote:

>We should not be providing lists that mirror the code tables for those
>standards. The *only* reason to provide a list of ISO 639 IDs or ISO
>3166 IDs, etc., would be if we explicitly wanted to limit the accepted
>values from one of those sources (such as I suggested at one point that
>we do for ISO 639-1). If we simply mirror what is published elsewhere,
>then we will inevitably create synchronization problems.

I agree wholeheartedly.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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