Subject: Re: And another Austrian tripoint<br/>
Date: Jul 01, 2003 @ 11:03<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1913380642">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@o...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; however i continue to think & feel after long comparison & <br/>
&gt; reflection that writing such odd letters in caps makes them <br/>
&gt; harder to read <br/>
&gt; & easier to mistake for incoherent shouting or ham call letters<br/>
&gt; & thus more daunting to anyone who tries to pronounce them<br/>
&gt; even as fluency in & with them remains most of the point & <br/>
&gt; advantage of using them at all<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; but again i know you & others have tried them both ways<br/>
&gt; so here again i wonder what you all think about this if anything<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I use capitals because ISO 3166 (country codes) does; lower case is <br/>
used for ISO 639-1 (language codes).<br/>
<br/>
Thus, FR is France, NL is the Netherlands, DE is Germany. fr is <br/>
French, nl is Dutch, and de is German. (But beware: sometimes country <br/>
and language codes are different: SE=Sweden, sv=Swedish; DK=Denmark, <br/>
da=Danish; JP=Japan, ja=Japanese.)<br/>
You can combine the two, too: de-BE is the German spoken in Belgium, <br/>
it-CH is the Italian spoken in Switzerland, nl-FR is the Dutch spoken <br/>
in France.<br/>
<br/>
But it is true that ISO only recommends you to make this lower/upper <br/>
case distinction; the codes are often used in tags and treated as <br/>
case insensitive. I guess the order becomes more important then.<br/>
<br/>
And we don&#39;t use language codes a lot here at BP, of course.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
PS: Incoherent shouting and ham call signs I also recognise by the <br/>
context these things are in. If a text becomes too incoherent, I skip <br/>
the lot... :-)</div>