Re: [OT] Re: Country codes

Kevin Brown <graphity at adelaide dot on dot net> wrote:

> 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.

RFC 3066, the standard for language tags on the Internet, *requires* the
use of ISO 639-1 (two-letter) codes instead of ISO 639-2 (three-letter)
codes whenever possible.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/