[Wikipedia-l] no or nb for Bokmal, or time to move to ISO 639-3?

[Pochung(Pektiong) Chen(Tan)]

The Norwegian language code problem might get a better solution using
ISO 639-3. ISO 639-3 is not out yet, but it seems to be getting there.
Here is the url to the draft
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?site_id=nrsi&format=file&media_id=ISO_DIS_639-3.5&filename=ISO_DIS_639-3.5.pdf

In ISO 639-3 we will have
nor= {nob, nno}, Norweigian (so called macrolanguage code)
nob= Norweigian Bokmal
nno= Norweigian Nynorsk

For example, one can try to use nob exculsively for Bokmal, nno
exclusively for Nynorsk, and nor for common Noreigian (mixed script,
including other minority script, etc)

Another macrolanguage example is the Serbo-Croation
hbs= {bos, hrv,srp}, Serbo-Croatian
bos= Bosnian
hrv= Croatian
srp= Serbian

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