It would be much more reassuring if that principle where stated in the procedures. What *is* in the procedures talks about "deletions, and changes of codes". How do you reconcile this statement with what you say?
Mark
Michael Everson wrote:
> 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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