Criteria for languages?
Peter Constable
petercon at microsoft.com
Mon Nov 23 08:18:03 CET 2009
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
>> Now, in the case of lav, the MARC Language Code List
>> (http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/language_name.html
>> ) explicitly states that Latgalian is encompassed under lav. So,
>> option 2 would break compatibility with MARC. We should not consider
>> option 2 unless the MARC community explicitly indicates that this is
>> acceptable.
> To when does that date? The document seems to be dated 15 October 2009.
I don't know for certain, but I do not think it is recent. I've got a copy of the MARC Language Code List from several years ago I might be able to dig up. Or someone from LOC might be able to tell us.
Peter
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