[Foundation-l] three-letter language codes

[Nathan]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Amir,
>
> I think this is a good idea. For the sake of consistency, we should
> choose a single standard to follow rather than a hodge-podge of newer
> standards, older (although still valid) standards, and ad hoc codes we
> made up on the spot (als, nrm) and custom codes (bat-smg, roa-tara,
> roa-rup, fiu-vro, map-bms, be-x-old). It also seems potentially
> confusing to me that we have codes that overlap, for example na.wp and
> nap.wp, ro.wp and roa-rup.wp, etc.
>
> -m.
>
>

Aside from simplifying the process of selecting new language codes,
what value does consistency have in this situation?

Nathan