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Re: ISO 639, reference in non-English?

From: Jonathan Rosenne <jonathan_rosenne@csi.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:27:10 +0200
Message-Id: <199901092333.SAA08222@hil-img-ims-2.compuserve.com>
To: "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
Cc: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>, www-international@w3.org 
At 12:59 08/01/99 +0900, Martin J. Duerst wrote:
>Really great! It would be good to have some indication about
>what the codes in parentheses mean (e.g. he (iw)): Which is
>the old one, which is the new one, when did the change occur.

The code for Hebrew is he. It used to be iw, and this is still in use by
many Unix systems so one must still be able to recognize it for some time.

Jony
Received on Saturday, 9 January 1999 18:35:02 UTC

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