From: Peter Constable
Message: 3982
Date: 2005-01-17
> From: Nicholas Bodley [mailto:nbodley@...]The multiplicity of sites documenting ISO 639 is, IMO, a disservice -- people are not served by sources of out-of-date copies into which errors may have been inadvertently inserted. This one place to go for ISO 639 is http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/.
> Try Googling on [language codes]. ISO 639 is one standard.
> Internet IP addresses use two-letter codes for nations...And have nothing to do with language identifiers, which is what Suzanne was asking about.
> Related, probably: The distinction between locale, such as Paraguay, andParaguay is not a locale; it is a country. A locale, roughly, corresponds to a set of cultural conventions relevant for software implementations. But that's also not the same as language. And it's well off-topic.
> language, such as Spanish and Guaraní