ISO 639 language codes available on the web

The Library of Congress, the registration authority for
ISO 639-2 (3-letter language codes) has put up some
very useful pages:

>The ISO 639-2 standard is at the official ISO 639-2/RA Web site:
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
>
>The tables arranged by ISO 639-2 code include the ISO 639-1 code as well:
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/termcodes.html
>(arranged by ISO 639-2/T (terminology) code)
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/bibcodes.html
>(arranged by ISO 639-2/B (bibliographic) code)
>
>For further information see the ISO 639-2/RA home page:
>http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/

Changes to ISO 639 and ISO 639-2:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html

Please note that currently, only two-letter codes should
be used in HTML, HTTP, and XML. To be able to use three-
letter codes, these standards have to be updated.

I have updated the W3C page on language codes at
http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTML-tags.html
to point to these resources.


Regards,   Martin.

Received on Thursday, 27 April 2000 05:40:30 UTC