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From: "Poster" <NOSPAM@POSTER.net>
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Subject: Re: Some small ASCII Icons
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:53:47 +0400
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Try deciphering these
Bet many here have not even heard of these languages...

AR
FA
SA
UR
TA
SW
IN
KN
MS
MA


"Peter Punk" <ppunk@damthatspam.chello.nl> wrote in message
news:v37evtk5bkpsqq5ltnp24r2o1a7eeonnpo@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:43:53 +0100, Philip Newton
> <pne-news-20011117@newton.digitalspace.net> provoked the following text:
>
> >> > >> >+--+
> >> > >> >|EN|   Keyboard Langauge Indicator
> >> > >> >+--+
> >> > >> +--+
> >> > >> |DE|   Keyboard Langauge Indicator
> >> > >> +--+
> >> > >  +--+
> >> > >  |DA|   Keyboard Langauge Indicator
> >> > >  +--+
> >> Sorry, you're all wrong. Its:
> >>
> >> +--+
> >> |GB|  Keyborad Language Indicator
> >> +--+
> >
> >GB? What language is that? It's certainly not one of the ISO 639
> >language codes.
>
> Ermmm... Brittish English (as in US English)).
>
> >(It might be a country code according to ISO 3166, but using that for
> >languages doesn't make sense. For example, what language would 'CH' be?
>
> I think that would be Swiss.
>
> >or 'BE'?
>
> Belgian.
>
> >Or even 'CA'?)
>
> Californian. :-)
> --
>         Peter Punk
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