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Re: Official ISO 639 changes

• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: "Unicode List" <unicode@u...>
• Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:24:25 -0400

At 3:10 AM -0800 4/25/00, Michael Everson wrote:
>
>The RA-JAC agreed a mechanism to ensure that there will be no overlap of
>2-letter and 3-letter codes. It is a cutoff date and precedence rule; I'm
>not sure if it's been cast in resolutionese yet or not. It's dependent on
>the finalization of the revision of 639-1.


Has anybody noticed that XML 1.0 requires 2-letter and forbids 
three-letter language codes? From section 2.1.2 of the XML 1.0 spec:


The Langcode may be any of the following:

   a two-letter language code as defined by [ISO 639], "Codes for the
   representation of names
   a language identifier registered with the Internet Assigned
   Numbers Authority [IANA]; these begin with the prefix "i-" (or "I-")
   a language identifier assigned by the user, or agreed on between parties
   in private use; these must begin with the prefix "x-" or "X-" in
   order to ensure that they do not conflict with names later
   standardized or registered with IANA

Production 35 enforces this constraint.
I think XML needs another erratum here to fix this.


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