Re: Thoughts on CLASS and ROLE attributes in HTML 3 draft

Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
11 Mar 1995 15:33:19 +0000 (GMT)

> > c. lang CDATA "en.us" -- ISO language, country code --
> > What ISO # defines these? 3166 is country codes, what is langs?
> > Does anyone have a full list they could post or point at?
>
> Definitely would be useful - anyone? I'm going to implement the <lang>
> tag that is in there sometime soon, and a list would be most useful.

There's a new RFC that defines language codes which should replace
the two part ISO language and country codes (in a mostly upward-compatible
way), I don't have the number handy but it is referenced in the new http
internet draft that just came out. (It was also mentioned a month or
so back in the threads on multilingual stuff, I think.)

A little webbing and gophering reveals that the ISO standard for
language codes is ISO 639:1988. As usual you have to buy this on paper
from the ISO or your national standards body.

Q. Does anyone have it (pirated?) in machine-readable form?

///Peter