Re: Selecting Languages

Hitoaki Sakamoto (hitoaki@mahler.NTT.JP)
Sun, 27 Feb 1994 22:35:51 +0900

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From: Hitoaki Sakamoto <hitoaki@mahler.NTT.JP>
To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch, uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: Selecting Languages
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Feb 1994 12:46:56 JST"
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 22:35:51 +0900

Hi Masataka,

I haven't seen you for a long time.... :-)

>> The problem is how to express language.

I see.

>> There is ISO 639 two letter langage code (not contry code) but it does
>> not contain a lot of languages.
>>
>> So, whether it should be extended or not and how can it be extended
>> is, I think, the largest issue.

Let me see. But ISO 639 is resonable for the time. Do you
think about it?

>> Do you want to distinguish Queen's and American English?

It is diffcult for me to make exact distinctions between
both languages. ;-<

-hitoaki