On 02/27/2002 06:26:02 AM Alain LaBonté wrote:
> So the discussion started with stability of "country" codes... If a
code
>represents a political territory, it can NOT be stable by nature, whether
>it is alphabetic or numeric. The only stability you can expect has to do
>with the non-reassignment of a code within a reasonable period, to a
>different body.
The same is true of languages as well, though, fortunately, languages
generally take longer to change than countries. But writing systems and
orthographies can change about as quickly as can countries.
- Peter
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