Another update to registry

[Addison Phillips [wM]]

If I read Håvard's message correctly:

<snip>The ISO 639 RA-JAC (now) only includes "normal" name forms in its decisions,
not inverted. The underlying database (now) has "normal" name forms only.....</snip>

then the official ISO 639 registry is now that way, or at least future entries will not use the inverted form.

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no 
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of Mark Davis
> Sent: 2004年10月26日 10:26
> To: John Clews; Harald Tveit Alvestrand
> Cc: ietf-languages at iana.org; Doug Ewell
> Subject: Re: Another update to registry
> 
> 
> I believe what Doug was referring to was adding the inversion. 
> What we don't
> want to see is all possible permutations:
> 
> North American Indian; Indian, North American; American Indian, North
> 
> By the way, the ISO names are very inconsistent with regards to inversion,
> and there seems to be little pattern to when it is done. It would be much
> much cleaner if all the inversions were undone.
> 
> Davis, Mark
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Clews" <scripts20 at uk2.net>
> To: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald at alvestrand.no>
> Cc: <ietf-languages at iana.org>; "Doug Ewell" <dewell at adelphia.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:17
> Subject: Re: Another update to registry
> 
> 
> > > --On 22. oktober 2004 13:13 -0700 Doug Ewell <dewell at adelphia.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Low German; Low Saxon; German, Low; Saxon, Low
> > >> Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Old Church Slavonic; Church 
> Slavonic; Old
> > >> Bulgarian
> > >> etc.
> > >>
> > >> IMHO, the latter two border on the ridiculous; it's probably not
> > >> necessary to offer every possible permutation of a multi-word name.
> >
> > Because of the confusions that people have over German and 
> Saxon dialects
> > and languages, Low German and Low Saxon are both necessary descriptions.
> >
> > German, Low; and Saxon, Low are just the inverted forms.
> >
> > Not over the top at all really.
> >
> > John Clews
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