[NUT-devel] questions about "Language" info packets

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:27:55PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:32:48AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:36:34PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > > So ISO 3166 is out, too?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm against 2-letter codes. The number of languages is way too large
> > > > > for these codes to be remotely sufficient.
> > > > 
> > > > ISO 3166 is about country codes and about half of the codes from the 2
> > > > letter codespace seem to be used or reserved in some way ...
> > > 
> > > But should three-letter country codes be allowed?
> > 
> > i dont know, but i would prefer if either 2 or 3 letter codes would be
> > used but not both ...
> 
> Each 3-letter code has a corresponding 2-letter code, and I just noticed
> that ISO doesn't publish the 3-letter codes for free, so I think country
> codes should use the 2-letter form.

iam not arguing against that but
http://www.davros.org/misc/iso3166.html
amongth others lists the 3 letter codes

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