Karl Dietz | Re: codes nach ISO 639

hi,

sf asked here about ISO. george answered. here some infos i
posted a in july to this topic. it is really not easy to get such a
code.

and please note: i just added a new feature in this lfn-list:
in the section "database" now there is a contact list. just feel free
to use it.

bon voles, karl.

Am 10 Jul 2004, um 10:50 hat Karl Dietz geschrieben:
> Am 8 Jul 2004, um 21:21 hat Karl Dietz geschrieben:
>
> > alo, hi all,
> >
> > i just got the info about iso and checked it for another language: ia.
> > lfn has yet not an iso code
> >
> > the three digit could be: lfn
> > the two digit may be: lf
> > both codes are free.
> >
> > is anybody here in this group who has experience with such stuff?
>
> i checked the iso-site. i think it is not soooo easy... :((
>
> "182 languages might not seem like a big number, considering that
> there are
> between 5 000 and 7 000 languages in the world. However, the
> Registration
> Authority has to be very restrictive since the alpha-2 code cannot
> contain
> more than the number of letters in the Latin alphabet (26x26=676
> possible
> code elements)," noted Mr. Hjulstad. "For this reason, ISO 639-1
> represents only the major languages of the world which are most
> frequently
> represented in the total body of the world's literature."
>
> aus:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/news/2002/iso639_1.html
>
> >
> > bon voles, karl
> > http://listserv.shuttle.de/mailman/listinfo/wissen2
> >
> >

> >
> >                      Sprachcodes nach ISO 639-1
> > Im ISO Standard 639-1 sind Abkürzungen für Sprachen definiert, die
> > jeweils aus zwei Kleinbuchstaben bestehen. In HTML werden sie auch beim
> > LANG-Attribut verwendet.

>
> >
> > Sie finden Tabellen nach Sprachen und {HYPERLINK  \l "ByCode"}nach Code geordnet .
> > Quellen:

>
> >
> > http://medoc.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/HTML3/anhang/node1.html

>
> >
> > mit Aktualisierung von 1989 nach http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt.
> >
> > aus
> > http://www.mathguide.de/projekt/doku/sprachcode.html
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > interlingua-ger - ...
> > http://mailman.aki-stuttgart.de/mailman/listinfo/interlingua-ger
> > --
> > INTERLNG - international list in Interlingua
> > http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/interlng.html
> > --
> > Union Mundial pro Interlingua (UMI)
> > http://www.interlingua.com
> > --
> >
> > ------- Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht / End of forwarded message -------
> >
>
> actual: 104 members in lfn-group. cool.

actual 108 members