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Subject: [Fwd: ISO 639 language codes available on the web]
Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:03:41 GMT
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Some info about language codes (e.g. en, eng).
Erik
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From: "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
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Subject: ISO 639 language codes available on the web
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The Library of Congress, the registration authority for
ISO 639-2 (3-letter language codes) has put up some
very useful pages:
>The ISO 639-2 standard is at the official ISO 639-2/RA Web site:
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
>
>The tables arranged by ISO 639-2 code include the ISO 639-1 code as well:
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/termcodes.html
>(arranged by ISO 639-2/T (terminology) code)
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/bibcodes.html
>(arranged by ISO 639-2/B (bibliographic) code)
>
>For further information see the ISO 639-2/RA home page:
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/
Changes to ISO 639 and ISO 639-2:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html
Please note that currently, only two-letter codes should
be used in HTML, HTTP, and XML. To be able to use three-
letter codes, these standards have to be updated.
I have updated the W3C page on language codes at
http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTML-tags.html
to point to these resources.
Regards, Martin.
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