[OT] Re: Country codes

Doug Ewell at <dewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>I hadn't drawn the connection to language codes.  Yes, of course, "ko"
>is the ISO 639 code for the Korean language, but there is no country
>code "ko" -- North Korea is "kp" (for People's Republic of) and South
>Korea is "kr" (for Republic of).

Any confusion between language codes and country codes is now virtually 
impossible because all the major language codes (ISO 639-2, MARC and SIL) 
now use THREE letters instead of two eg the ISO 639-2 code for the Korean 
language is kor.

Kevin