Re: (long) Making orthographies computer-ready

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 07:53:27 EDT


At 07:32 -0400 2002-07-30, John Cowan wrote:

> > Well, I'm pretty sure Hawaiian isn't going to get it,
>
>It seems to me that if the request were backed by the State of Hawaii
>(or one of its agencies) it would meet the ISO 639-1 criteria, save
>perhaps for the number of speakers. Hawai'ian is an official language
>of Hawaii, after all.

Giving it a 2-letter code would break the agreement made about RFC3066.

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Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com



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