Re: Web browsers and the new language code for Hebrew

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Feb 10 1997 - 16:18:35 EST


At 14:01 -0800 1997-02-10, François Yergeau wrote:

>Blame all the outdated copies of ISO 639 out there on the Web! I only
>became aware of the changed codes recently, too late for Tango 3.0.

An accurate version is available in French, English, and Irish at
http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso639/iso639-fr.html , iso639-en.html,
and iso639-ga.html.

>>This is very worrying. I hope the vendors will speedily enhance their
>>products to recognise both the old and new codes.

Unless the old codes are now no longer registered. This _is_ a problem. In
principle the old codes are now usable for future standardization.

You should talk to Infoterm, the registration authority. Their address is
on my 639 pages.

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