Re: Official ISO 639 changes

From: Herman Ranes (herman@iet.hist.no)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 08:06:16 EDT

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It may have been thoroughly discussed earlier in this list (any archive
links?), but I wonder:

why did ISO 639 change the codes 'in', 'iw' and 'ji' into 'id', 'he' and
'yi' in 1989?

-Herman

Michael Everson skreiv:
>
> Ar 11:01 -0400 2000-04-24, scríobh Rebecca S. Guenther:
> >I've put up the change notice for ISO 639. See:
> >
> >http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html
> >
> >Thanks to Michael Everson for letting me use his coding.
> >
> >Rebecca
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