Ken,
Your best point should be that if you compare the following two sites that
you will find that the Unicode site is out of date. Building such a site is
one problem. Maintaining it is another.
Other problems are the source of information. For example, You have Maltese
with a Windows LCID code. However, Microsoft has never implemented it. It
is valid? Does any one know if Microsoft will ever implement it and if so
will they use this code?
Yes the standard is incomplete but 437 ISO 639 languages is a start.
Carl
> There is such an international standard: ISO 639. It is woefully
> incomplete, but it *is* a standard. (Or rather a couple of standards
> in uneasy coexistence.) A list of the ISO 639 two-letter codes, together
> with their crossmappings to Microsoft Windows and Macintosh language
> codes has recently been updated, and is available on the Unicode website:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/languages.html
>
> The ISO 639 three-letter codes are also easily accessible online now:
>
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/
>
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