Re: Euro mess (Was: valid locales ---> was bilingual websites

On 11/07/2001 01:16:42 PM David_Possin@i2.com wrote:

>Language identification - how can we identify languages that are not 
included 
>in the ISO 639 language group standard? (Current locale identifiers use 
the 
>2-letter code, not the 3-letter code) 

Locale identifiers cannot remain stuck at 2-letter codes for languages if 
people want to be able to handle much diversity. 


>And my biggest proposal is to break the tie between language and country 
when 
>selecting a locale. 

No objections here.


- Peter


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Received on Wednesday, 7 November 2001 23:02:21 UTC