David Gerard wrote:
Worse than that even - sh: was Serbo-Croatian, then they were separated at some stage. Anyone know the history?
The ISO 639 language code 'sh' for Serbo-Croatian was officially deprecated over five years ago: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/codechanges.html
While I'm sure a happy world in which the violent breakup of Yugoslavia never happened would be great, the fact is that it did happen, and the resulting nations are heavily invested in playing up nationalistic ethnic and linguistic differences.
I don't particularly care whether someone attempts to re-merge them or not, but you're going to run into very annoyed people either way.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)