Re: Definition of language codes

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Pavel Makovec wrote:
> Olaf Meeuwissen napsal:
> >On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 "Pavel Makovec" <pavelm@debian.cz> wrote:
> >> AFAIK, the two-letter ISO 639 language codes in small letters are used
> >> for <language> and two-letter ISO 3166 country codes in capitals are
> >> used for <territory>, e.g. cs_CZ is Czech language in Czech Republic.
> >
> >To drive the point home, Dutch in the Netherlands and Belgium would be
> >nl_NL and nl_BE, while French in Belgium and France would be fr_BE and
> >fr_FR.  That's why the territory is used.
> 
> Exactly. French in Canada and Switzerland would be fr_CA and fr_CH,
> Czech in Slovakia ... cs_SK, Slovak in Czech Republic ... sk_CZ, etc.

This would mean that one cannot use "slang" codes?

For example, there are some common slangs in Germany: Ostfriesisch/plattdeutsch,
bavarian, schwaebisch, fraenkisch etc.  I wonder how one would encode
these.

Regards,

	Joey

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