- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:48:18 +0900
- To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Forwarded. At 14:30 1999/11/30 -0500, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Harald; > > > The relationship between language and country code was copied almost > > verbatim from ISO 639, which specifies the use of language code and country > > code together for "language as spoken in a specific country"; if this is an > > error, it is an error that did not originate with me. > > Acknowledged. > > So, you merely missed the chance to correct the error. > > > The fact that codes of this form exist does not prevent anyone from using > > the language code alone, or using the ISO 639 language code with subtags > > that are not country codes. > > Yup. It merely introduce or amplify confusions that ISO 3166 > were essential or have had some special power for localization. > > Masataka Ohta > > > #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
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