Scottish English
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
jefsey at jefsey.com
Thu Oct 20 23:55:33 CEST 2005
At 23:28 20/10/2005, Mark Crispin wrote:
>Hence my observation that it's really about power.
You are right. ISO 3166 is the standard which defines powers. So it
can be orthogonal to languages. However often a lingual community
corresponds to a social community which has embodied a State. This is
why relating languages and country codes makes very often little
sense, except for large geolinguistic entities or big powers which
can force a language (and represent probably the majority of the people).
This is why ISO 639-6 is of major interest for open users. It should
be embedded in RFC 3066 ter if I understood well? And a table
available in November from what Debbie said.
jfc
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