# Re: Selecting Languages

Masataka Ohta (mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp)
Mon, 28 Feb 94 1:44:38 JST

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    From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>

    Message-Id: <9402271644.AA19754@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>

    Subject: Re: Selecting Languages

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 1:44:38 JST

    In-Reply-To: <9402271335.AA08708@mahler.ntt.jp>; from "Hitoaki Sakamoto" at Feb 27, 94 10:35 pm

> Hi Masataka,
>
> I haven't seen you for a long time.... :-)

For more than a year. Will you go Seattle?

> >> 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?

It depends on applications.

ISO 639 is enough for the coarsest approximation, and can be used
for a while until extension mechanism is developed based on
real needs and experiences, I think.

> >> Do you want to distinguish Queen's and American English?
>
> It is diffcult for me to make exact distinctions between
> both languages. ;-<

The difference is minor and ISO 639 nor its proposed extension does not
distinguish them.

But, UNIX command spell distinguishes them, at least.

Masataka Ohta

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