- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:38:22 -0500
- To: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
- Cc: IETF Languages <ietf-languages@iana.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
Peter Constable scripsit: > If you want to refer to Standard Arabic, use "ar". If Standard Arabic > has a Sudan-specific variant (dialect or spelling differences), then use > ar-SD. If what is intended is the vernacular Sudanese Spoken Arabic > (perceived as a distinct language from Standard Arabic or the spoken > varieties in other countries), then ISO 639-3 will provide a distinct > alpha-3 ID, and I suggest that people wait to use that. Eh? Has the decision to make "ar" a macro-language been changed? -- In politics, obedience and support John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> are the same thing. --Hannah Arendt http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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