Question on ISO-639:1988

[Debbie Garside]

>I looked at the description of Irish that is or was on the
>Linguasphere website once, and it divided things up so much that I
>find it hard to see a use for it.

Also, that is the reason for the family of 639 standards. If you don't need
the granularity offered by ISO 639-6 use 639-3/2/1 (and 5) as there is
complete mapping between them which means you can start with 639-1 but
expand to use 639-6 if you find it necessary.

It is my opinion that most people will use 639-1 (alpha2) or 639-3 (alpha3)
but that should not mean we do not cater for those that need 639-6 (alpha4)
level of langtags (as the XML community obviously do).

Debbie

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of Michael
Everson
Sent: 01 June 2004 14:38
To: ietf-languages at iana.org
Subject: RE: Question on ISO-639:1988


At 14:30 +0100 2004-06-01, Debbie Garside wrote:
>:-))  Sorry Michael... it is in process and formed part of my list of
things
>to do on my return from Lisbon... as you were in New York when I was in
>Dublin in May... am again due in Dublin sometme in June and will endeavour
>to deliver it personally (as also there has been a postal strike in
Dublin).

I will be in Canada for the second half of June. The postal strike
lasted a week and has been over for a long time.

I looked at the description of Irish that is or was on the
Linguasphere website once, and it divided things up so much that I
find it hard to see a use for it.
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
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