[SGVLUG] Language codes (was Two Questions)

[Robert Leyva]

There is unicode, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

(waddya expect? I was a java guy) :)


> Arthur Baldwin wrote:
>> Does anybody know where to find a reasonably complete list of "language
>> codes"?
>> ISO and IETF seem to be in "alpha stage" and they want over $100 for
>> them.
> <snip>
>
> Are you asking about ISO-639?  The terms "alpha-2", "alpha-3", and
> "alpha-4"
> refer to codes using 2, 3, or 4 alphabetic characters per code, not to
> their
> maturity level (as distinguished from the meaning of "alpha" in terms like
> "alpha release").
>
> The official ISO-639 info seems to be available online from the US Library
> of
> Congress at http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/.
>
> IETF standards are also available free online; the most relevant one seems
> to be
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646, which has a status of "Best Current
> Practice", which usually means it's pretty mature (but generally less
> technical
> than "Internet Standards").
>
> The IANA Language Subtag Registry seems to be online at
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry (in a format
> described
> by rfc5646).
>
> The W3C also has their (web-centric) take on language tags, with links to
> all of
> the above resources, at
> http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/Overview.en.php
>
>> Arthur
>
> --
> Jeremy Leader
> jleader at alumni.caltech.edu
>


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Robert Leyva
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