Re: Official ISO 3166 country codes online

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Nov 29 1999 - 07:51:57 EST


Ar 09:29 +0900 1999-11-29, scríobh Masataka Ohta:

>> Recently we have requested the ISO 639-2 RA to add a single 3-letter code
>> for Sign Languages (deaf and otherwise). This single code can be combined
>> with ISO 3166-1 country codes and ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes usefully.
>
>And it unnecessarily distinguish same Sign Languages in different countries.

It does _not_. Sorry, but you are dead wrong. Sign Languages _are_
different in different countries; and some countries have more than one.

What list is this discussion pertinent to? It's copied to too many.

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