Re: Official ISO 639 changes

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 08:36:07 EDT

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Ar 04:02 -0800 2000-04-25, scríobh Herman Ranes:
>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?

It doesn't matter. :-) These kinds of changes are not allowed any more.

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