- From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:40:46 +0000 (GMT)
- To: nir dagan <dagan@upf.es>, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: HTML Editor <www-html-editor@w3.org>, Robin Cover <robin@acadcomp.sil.org>, Martin Dürst <duerst@w3.org>, Charles Wicksteed <charles.wicksteed@reuters.com>
Ian Jacobs wrote: > nir dagan wrote: > > > > Dear Editors of HTML. > > > > I think that there is an error in an example in section 8.1.1 of > > the HTML 4.0 spec. It is said that "he" is the two letter code > > for Hebrew, whereas the references you give to ISO639 say it is > > "iw" and not "he". "he" isn't assigned to any language. > > (I looked at the reference at www.sil.org). > > > > Please enlighten me if I got it wrong. I have a link to a Hebrew > > site, and I am not sure how to write the HREFLANG. > > Yes, I'm afraid this looks like a bug. I'll verify this > with our internationalization experts, but you should > probably use "iw" since it's registered. > > Thank you for pointing this out. > > Ian It is *not* a bug. The correct code is "he". In 1989, the ISO 639 Registration Authority changed a number of codes as follows (the quote is taken from RFC 1766): : The following codes have been added in 1989 (nothing later): ug : (Uigur), iu (Inuktitut, also called Eskimo), za (Zhuang), he (Hebrew, : replacing iw), yi (Yiddish, replacing ji), and id (Indonesian, : replacing in). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misha Wolf Email: misha.wolf@reuters.com 85 Fleet Street Standards Manager Voice: +44 171 542 6722 London EC4P 4AJ Reuters Limited Fax : +44 171 542 8314 UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12th International Unicode Conference, 8-10 Apr 1998, Tokyo, www.unicode.org 7th World Wide Web Conference, 14-18 Apr 1998, Brisbane, www7.conf.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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