[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia English English

[Andrew Gray]

On 23/09/05, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins at gmail.com> wrote:

> > ...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)

Pedant moment: we did get .gb domains, though they got deprecated
quickly and replaced with .uk ones. IIRC, about the only people who
used them were BT and DERA.

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- Andrew Gray
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