Another update to registry

[Håvard Hjulstad]

Correct reading.

However, the tables at the ISO 639 web site (http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/iso639jac.html) does not (yet) reflect this. The items that were there since publication of ISO 639-2:1998 are still in the form they had in that edition. I am sure this is confusing to many users, and we need to look into how to fix that.

But for members of this list: Names in inverted form and "normal" form have equal status. It is the "normal" form that now is the normal form...

Regards,
Håvard Hjulstad
(ISO 639 RA-JAC Secretary)
(mailto:hhj at standard.no)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no 
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of 
> Addison Phillips [wM]
> Sent: 26. oktober 2004 19:48
> To: Mark Davis; John Clews; Harald Tveit Alvestrand
> Cc: ietf-languages at iana.org; Doug Ewell
> Subject: RE: Another update to registry
> 
> 
> 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
> Director, Globalization Architecture
> webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility 
> http://www.webMethods.com Chair, W3C Internationalization 
> (I18N) Working Group Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task 
> Force http://www.w3.org/International
> 
> Internationalization is an architecture. 
> It is not a feature.
> 
> > -----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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