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Re: [PATCH][BZ 16973] Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
- From: keld at keldix dot com
- To: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:59:21 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][BZ 16973] Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:46:53PM +0300, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2015-08-14 08:31, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 11 Aug 2015 10:54, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> >> lang_lib (which reflects ISO 639-2/B (bibliographic) codes) and
> >> lang_term (which reflects ISO 639-2/T (terminology) codes) should be
> >> identical except for those languages for which ISO 639-2 specifies
> >> separate bibliographic/terminology values.
> >
> > i'm inclined to just merge w/out having to load the standard and double
> > check the values myself. is that wrong ?
>
> FWIW, I used this Library of Congress page as the source, it seemed to
> match the corresponding Wikipedia page:
>
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes
The LoC is the official page for the ISO_639-2 codes.
Best regards
Keld