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From: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
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Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #101
Message-ID: <4296@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>
Date: 12 Nov 89 18:15:14 GMT
References: <807@shelby.Stanford.EDU> <2663@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
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In article <2663@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:

   	OS/2 National Language Support already has a set of "country
	codes" assigned.  Now countries aren't languages -- Switzerland is one
	country with four languages, English is one language with many countries --

	044	= the United Kingdom
	046	= Sweden
	358	= Finland
	perhaps you will see where OS/2 gets its numbers...

(Telephone country code numbers.)  The problem with using these
numbers is that Knuth chose to use one-byte language numbers, 0..255.
And, as you say, there are many countries with multiple languages.-- 
Tor Lillqvist, VTT/ATK