Re: 3 letter language codes when ambiguous

On Dec 21, 2003, at 03:46, Eric Kow wrote:
> Reading Ramanan's concerns have made me think more about the confusion 
> arises between language and country codes.  I propose that we stem off 
> this confusion by switching to 3 letters for those wikipedias whose 
> language code conflicts with a country code.  I also suggest we 
> implement this sooner than later, while the affected wikipedias are 
> still small and the disruption is minimal.

Please see RFC 3066 - Tags for the Identification of Languages, section 
2.3 Choice of language tag:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3066.html

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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