[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia English English

[Rowan Collins]

On 22/09/05, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The software made by Zhengzhu for Chinese has this capability already
> > with this syntax:
> > -{language_code1: text1; language_code2: text2; ...}-
> > So it might be something like this:
> > -{en-us: pants; en-br: trousers}-
>
> ...and shouldn't it be en-uk rather than en-br?

Actually, Andrew was closer: it's en-gb, because RFC 3066 defines it
as an ISO 639 language code (en for English) plus an ISO 3166 country
code (GB meaning, confusingly, the UK; I'm glad the IANA ignored this
and gave us .uk for our domains)

For the really curious:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

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Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]