[Ietf-languages] Re: https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2 down

[Doug Ewell <[e-mail]>]

Stéphane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> I don't know for how long but you can no longer search in ISO 639-2
> "Unknown MySQL server host 'c4vlpwebdb03.loc.gov' (111)"
>
> https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/langcodes_name.php?iso_639_1=gu

I don’t know if I’ve ever tried the search function, so my experience doesn’t count for much, but it sure doesn’t seem to be behaving the way I would expect.

However, Stéphane’s message caused me to explore the rest of the Set 2 LCA site, for the first time in a while, where I was surprised to learn the following:

“Two-letter identifier bh deprecated in ISO 639-1; use of three-letter identifier bih for Bihari languages is favored.” (2021-05-25)
https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php

So this was FIVE years ago, and I just learned about it today🤦‍♂ probably because none of the Set 1, 2, or 5 LCAs issue change notices (other than posting on their websites), and it isn’t in Set 3 because it’s a collection code.

Per Section 3.4, item 14, we will need to register ʼbih’ and deprecate ‘bh’ with a Preferred-Value of ‘bih’. I will post forms for that in a few days. There’s probably not a great rush, since subtags for collections are not preferred for tagging (Section 4.1, item 4).

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