Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing dot co dot uk> wrote: > Please remember that Ethnologue is not normative in any way. If you > want information about ISO 639-3 go to the ISO 639-3 site. From there > you can access the linked informative data from Ethnologue whilst at > the same time being assured that the code you are viewing is up to > date. That's the approach I took in my tag-creating and tag-parsing software, which is on semi-permanent hold during this period of chaos. For every language subtag in the Registry, there is a "More information..." Web link to the ISO 639-3 page, which in turn may contain a link to the relevant Ethnologue or Linguist List page. Note that the link does *not* say "Definitive, undisputable, last-word information." This strategy even works for ISO 639-2 collection codes, since the 639-3 site includes vestigial pages for each of them. The only special handling necessary is to map 2-letter language subtags back to their 3-letter equivalents. Naturally, this strategy fails if the Registry has a 639-3-based subtag that isn't in Ethnologue or Linguist List, but then again the phrase "More information..." isn't intended to promise the moon. -- Doug Ewell * Arvada, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages ˆ _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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