- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:03:21 +0900
- To: "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>, <www-international@w3.org>
At 00:13 04/12/16, Peter Constable wrote: >A new part to the ISO 639 series of standards is in preparation (ISO >639-3, about to be circulated for DIS ballot) that provides a much >larger set of IDs with far more complete coverage than is currently >available. This will provide three-letter IDs for each of the Chinese >languages. Once published, it is expected that it will be incorporated >into a revision of RFC 3066. At that point, there will be identifiers >available for each individual Chinese language; e.g. "gan". It's >possible the revision to RFC 3066 that incorporates ISO 639-3 would give >users the option to use either "gan" or "zh-gan". At least on the Web, the less options people have (for the same thing), the better things will work. Regards, Martin.
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