RE: Updated article: Two-letter or three-letter language codes

Exactly. Codes should be converted at the boundaries to systems that
can't handle anything else that three-letter codes. It has to be done
one way, so it can as well be done both ways.

Regards,   Martin.

At 00:07 06/09/23, Misha Wolf wrote:
>
>That would be seriously broken.  It would encourage 
>people to violate BCP 47.
>
>Misha
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Deach [mailto:sdeach@adobe.com] 
>Sent: 22 September 2006 16:05
>To: Misha Wolf; Richard Ishida
>Cc: www-international@w3.org
>Subject: RE: Updated article: Two-letter or three-letter language codes
>
>I would strongly recomment taht all processing applications support both
>2 
>& 3 letter ISO codes. It was the only way to get some countries and some
>
>applications (especially in business databases) simply always use the 3 
>letter coded.
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