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Hello,

Does anyone know if ISO has an email and or ftp site address?

Many thanks,
Susan Lasovick

On Thu, 9 Dec 1993, Bowyer Jeff wrote:

> Here are more consolidated responses to the on-going discussion prompted
> by:
>
>      A previous message to the INSOFT-L Internationalization of Software
>      mailing list concerned the following topic:
>
>      >
>      > Here are the consolidated answers to the original question from
>      > Roger Nelson (rnelson@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu)
>      >
>      >      Where can I obtain the list of 3 character ISO language codes?
>      >
>
>      Apparently, everyone who provided one of the consolidated answers (and
>      me, too) misread the original question.  Oops.
>
>
> [Please note: I *will not* redistribute flames.  :-) ]
>
> Jeff
> INSOFT-L List Manager
>
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>
> Sender: Render Chiu (rchiu@ccmail.com)
>
>      > Sender: Keld J|rn Simonsen (keld@dkuug.dk)
>      >
>      > The iso language codes are in ISO 639, 2-letter code,
>      > and there was a work going on about 3-letter codes. It seems to have
>      > failed at the DIS stage. Anyway there is an extraxt of an
>      > older version available in dkuug.dk:i18n/iso-cd-639-2
>
>      Is there any way to find where ISO 639 store?  Thanks!
>
>
> Sender: Rob Hegt (hegt@iaci.kun.nl)
>
> I was pleased to find out about the ISO-3166 standard, but was wondering
> what is exactly standardised by it. Is it the countries or the
> languages? I suppose countries, as e.g. belgium doesn't have it's 'own'
> language, and has even 2 (or 3?) official languages.
>
> So now I would like to know which languages exist and if there exists an
> international standard for these.
>
>
> Sender: Joyce Pashley (joyce@x.co.uk)
>         Documentation/Translation Manager
> 	IXI Limited
> 	Cambridge, England
>
> Herewith list:
> Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F)
> "Code for the representation of names of languages".
> Typed by Keld.Simonsen@dkuug.dk 1990-11-30
> Two-letter lower-case symbols are used.
> The Registration Authority for ISO 639 is Infoterm, Osterreiches
> Normungsinstitut (ON), Postfach 130, A-1021 Vienna, Austria.
>
> aa Afar
> ab Abkhazian
> af Afrikaans
> am Amharic
> ar Arabic
> as Assamese
> ay Aymara
> az Azerbaijani
>
> ba Bashkir
> be Byelorussian
> bg Bulgarian
> bh Bihari
> bi Bislama
> bn Bengali; Bangla
> bo Tibetan
> br Breton
>
> ca Catalan
> co Corsican
> cs Czech
> cy Welsh
>
> da Danish
> de German
> dz Bhutani
>
> el Greek
> en English
> eo Esperanto
> es Spanish
> et Estonian
> eu Basque
>
> fa Persian
> fi Finnish
> fj Fiji
> fo Faeroese
> fr French
> fy Frisian
>
> ga Irish
> gd Scots Gaelic
> gl Galician
> gn Guarani
> gu Gujarati
>
> ha Hausa
> hi Hindi
> hr Croatian
> hu Hungarian
> hy Armenian
>
> ia Interlingua
> ie Interlingue
> ik Inupiak
> in Indonesian
> is Icelandic
> it Italian
> iw Hebrew
>
> ja Japanese
> ji Yiddish
> jw Javanese
>
> ka Georgian
> kk Kazakh
> kl Greenlandic
> km Cambodian
> kn Kannada
> ko Korean
> ks Kashmiri
> ku Kurdish
> ky Kirghiz
>
> la Latin
> ln Lingala
> lo Laothian
> lt Lithuanian
> lv Latvian, Lettish
>
> mg Malagasy
> mi Maori
> mk Macedonian
> ml Malayalam
> mn Mongolian
> mo Moldavian
> mr Marathi
> ms Malay
> mt Maltese
> my Burmese
>
> na Nauru
> ne Nepali
> nl Dutch
> no Norwegian
>
> oc Occitan
> om (Afan) Oromo
> or Oriya
>
> pa Punjabi
> pl Polish
> ps Pashto, Pushto
> pt Portuguese
>
> qu Quechua
>
> rm Rhaeto-Romance
> rn Kirundi
> ro Romanian
> ru Russian
> rw Kinyarwanda
>
> sa Sanskrit
> sd Sindhi
> sg Sangro
> sh Serbo-Croatian
> si Singhalese
> sk Slovak
> sl Slovenian
> sm Samoan
> sn Shona
> so Somali
> sq Albanian
> sr Serbian
> ss Siswati
> st Sesotho
> su Sundanese
> sv Swedish
> sw Swahili
>
> ta Tamil
> te Tegulu
> tg Tajik
> th Thai
> ti Tigrinya
> tk Turkmen
> tl Tagalog
> tn Setswana
> to Tonga
> tr Turkish
> ts Tsonga
> tt Tatar
> tw Twi
>
> uk Ukrainian
> ur Urdu
> uz Uzbek
>
> vi Vietnamese
> vo Volapuk
>
> wo Wolof
>
> xh Xhosa
>
> yo Yoruba
>
> zh Chinese
> zu Zulu
>
>
> Sender: Roy Badami <roy@harlequin.co.uk>
>
> barness@ct.picker.com writes:
>
> > For the United Kingdom, I usually see (and use) "uk", not "gb".
>
> In what context?  I assure you that the ISO 3166 2-letter code for the
> United Kingdom is GB, not UK (unless it's changed very recently
> without my noticing... :-)
>
> Silly, isn't it.  We're the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
> Northern Ireland.  In other words, Greate Britain is only part of our
> country.
>
> So how the hell can GB stand for United Kingdom....?
>
> If you're thinking of e-mail top level domains, then the internet
> standards require the use of ISO codes.  But currently, for historical
> reasons, the UK still uses UK as its top-level domain.  (This is
> because, in our pre-internet days, we had our own namespace, called
> the NRS, which used UK as a top-level domain.)
>
> But, the intention is that we must ultimately conform to the internet
> rules.  Which means that *either* we start using GB as our e-mail
> domain, *or* we lobby the DTI to consider requesting a change in our
> ISO country code to UK.
>
> Actually, within the UK e-mail community, I gather there's quite a lot
> of support for the second option....
>
>