X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,3a2af5fc34b02060 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-18 07:51:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!uni-erlangen.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!64.137.hh1.ip.foni.NET!not-for-mail From: Philip Newton Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Some small ASCII Icons Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 16:54:13 +0100 Organization: very little Lines: 43 Message-ID: <0bmfvtgvqp22ldbf81knvou61ruqm6pjq7@4ax.com> References: <9svjb9$k743@OM9.omantel.net.om> <3bf389e4$0$336$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <3BF526A5.BF0DF674@hotmail.com> Reply-To: "Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton" NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.137.hh1.ip.foni.net (212.7.137.64) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1006098682 1030832 212.7.137.64 (16 [11583]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:10845 On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 02:22:52 GMT, ppunk@damthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) wrote: > On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 12:43:53 +0100, Philip Newton > provoked the following text: > > >> +--+ > >> |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)). "English" is 'En'. "British English" is en_GB (or en_UK); "US English" is "en_US". But both are "en". > >(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. There is no Swiss language. > >or 'BE'? > > Belgian. And no Belgian language, either. > >Or even 'CA'?) > > Californian. :-) Nor is there a "Canadian" language. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.