[OSM-talk] Introduction and a name key language question

Dean Earley dean at earlsoft.co.uk
Tue Jan 23 18:50:46 GMT 2007


Dave wrote:
> On 1/23/07, *Grant Slater* <openstreetmap at firefishy.com 
> <mailto:openstreetmap at firefishy.com>> wrote:
>> Use ISO 639-1 codes... 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
> 
> Yeah, highly confusing that one as the TLD country code for sweden is
>  .se -- but then the UK has TLD .uk, has a country code of gb, and
> the language is en (or en_gb if you're being specific). I hate
> standards ;-)

WikiPedia explains it well :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gb

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