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RE: [Ltru] Re: "X" vs. 'X (macrolanguage)"

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Sat, 08 December 2007 19:39 UTC

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> From: Frank Ellermann [mailto:nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de]


> Confusing is one thing, but two different language
> codes with the same description would be *broken*.
>
> 3066 and 4646 went to great lengths that this is
> not possible, including a promise from ISO in the
> text.

Whate are you referring to? I am not aware that IETF requested any promises from ISO wrt descriptions.



> The SIL pages claim that the description for "sw"
> is "Swahili (macrolanguage)".  The 4646 registry
> claims that it's "Swahili", at least one of them
> is wrong.

SIL's pages in relation to this entry in ISO 639-3 are not wrong wrt ISO 639. I cannot comment generally on whether that info is considered appropriate in relation to some application of ISO 639; that is entirely beyond the scope of ISO 639.



Peter

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