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Language codes with countries
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- Subject: DOCBOOK: Language codes with countries
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:03:08 -0400
- References: <oawv9jbmm4.fsf@arroz.fake> <shwv9hf2zc.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de><oavgp0hrhn.fsf@arroz.fake> <shsnk3dajo.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de><oa66gw2zwg.fsf@arroz.fake> <shpub0yctv.fsf@tux.gnu.franken.de><p04330105b778f282f2b3@[192.168.254.4]>
p. 120 of the Docbook book gives en_US as an example of an ISO 3166 country code for the lang attribute. However, these are normally written using hyphens rather than underscores; e.g. en-US. Which is correct for Docbook?
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