From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Sep 18 11:39:32 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 18 Sep 2001 18:39:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 96174 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2001 18:39:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Sep 2001 18:39:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Sep 2001 18:39:31 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14874; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:41:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BA794E5.6020603@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:39:33 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Lee Powell Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 letter code? References: <20010916181905.D32009@digitalkingdom.org> <20010917084806.L32009@digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Robin Lee Powell wrote: > As far as I can tell, they've posted very few indeed: > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-tags All the 2-letter codes of ISO 639 and the 3-letter codes of ISO 639-2, with optional ISO 3166 country code suffixes for national variants, are automatically registered. That's quite a lot: ISO 639-2 specifies over 400 languages. Only the obscurities need to be explicitly registered with IANA. > What's the tag for English under the same scheme? en, with national variants en-us, en-ca, en-gb, en-au, en-nz, en-ie, etcetera etcetera etcetera.; and registered variant en-scouse (the way they talk on Merseyside). "Art", BTW, is an ISO 639-2 tag for "Artificial languages (other)", that is, excluding Esperanto (esp) and a few others. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel