RE: [ubl-dev] Issue: two-letter or three-letter language codes?

["Roberto Cisternino" <roberto@javest.com>]

Actually the ISO-3 is a three-letter abbreviation for countries (used for
easely identify the country name), but ISO-2 is the *real* Code.

I think we should stay with ISO-2, but we could provide a complete
genericode code list with all ISO code and number columns for each
country.

The most important thing is we provide the most up-to-date version of it.

Hope this helps,

Roberto

> Before making the decision, you should check the ISO licensing policies as
> well.
>
> If I remember correctly, there was difference in licensing policy between
> the two and three letter country codes: in certain conditions usage of
> three letter codes was subject to ISO royalty fees, especially when
> published as a list in commercial applications.
>
> I was involved with the issue few years ago when working on IPTC
> (http://www.iptc.org) news exchange standards (NewsML-G2, EventsML-G2).
> Both standards used ISO country codes, but IPTC was not able to publish
> them as the list and used only individual codes in the document.
>
> I'm not sure what is the situation with the language codes, but rather
> check sooner than later :)
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Bosak [mailto:bosak@pinax.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 4:41 PM
> To: UBL TC; ubl-dev
> Subject: [ubl-dev] Issue: two-letter or three-letter language codes?
>
> Hello UBL TC and developers,
>
> A question has arisen with regard to language codes.  It appears that
> UN/CEFACT uses the ISO three-letter lowercase language codes, whereas
> UBL currently includes a list of ISO two-letter uppercase language codes
> (both are ISO standards as far as we know).  We're not going to be
> inclined to change something in 2.1 that already shipped in 2.0, so the
> question is: does anyone know of a good reason why UBL should switch to
> the three-letter lowercase form?
>
> We need to have this issue resolved by next week, so if anyone has an
> opinion, please let us know ASAP.
>
> Jon
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