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   Christian Weisgerber to Ruud Harmsen   
   Re: European Day of Languages (26 Septem   
   27 Sep 24 17:41:12   
   
   From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-09-27, Ruud Harmsen  wrote:   
      
   >>> https://edl.ecml.at/   
   >   
   > Perhaps they are mixing up ISO 639 (languages) and ISO 3166   
   > (countries)?   
      
   Apart from "ME" they are consistently using the language code.   
      
   >>Why does that list have Nynorsk instead of Norwegian (NO), which   
   >>covers both written standards?   
   >   
   > Yes, strange. The country code for Norway is NO, the languages are nn   
   > or nno for Nynorsk, and nb of nob for BokmÃ¥l.   
      
   Yes, but there is also "no" for Norwegian as a cover term for both.   
   That might be a recent addition.  I think I've seen I18N message   
   catalogs switch from "nb" to "no" over the last few years.   
      
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