[Ltru] Re: action item: "other" collections in 639

Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft dot com> wrote:

> Update on this: I’ve got agreement in principle from LOC to change 
> entries of the form “Foo (Other)” to “Foo languages” in ISO 639-2. In 
> doing this, they want to provide some info as to which 
> individual-language entries in 639-2 are encompassed within each 
> collection so that applications can derive “other” groups if that’s 
> how they want to use them. So, I’m not sure just how quickly that 
> change will appear in the code tables on the 639-2 site. (I wouldn’t 
> expect to see a change on the 639-3 site until that has changed on the 
> 639-2 site.)

Am I correct in thinking the group will want to delay 4645bis again for 
this?

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