the standard had already been released. What's the point of having
standard language abbreviations if they're subject to change?
"Annex B" in ISO 639-1:2001 (over a decade later, if that's a year) says
"The changes were publicised, but they have not been included in printed
versions of ISO 639." The first google hit for ISO-639 still makes no mention
of these changes (http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm). That rules.
Remove "XS?"; as far as I can tell that's just an error in the "native language"
page.
Glenn Maynard
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