LANGUAGES AND COUNTRIES AND CODES—OH, MY!

Now that you can successfully view most of the world’s languages in your web browser, you need to know how to keep track of all the world’s languages. ISO comes to the rescue again with standards for labeling languages and countries, shown in the following examples:

Table . ISO-639-1 Language Identifiers
EN English
FR French
JA Japanese
ZH Chinese
Table . ISO-3166 Country Codes
FR France
DE Germany
ZA South Africa
SE Sweden

For the complete lists, refer to Appendix D, “Language and Country Codes.”

Language and country codes play many important roles in web globalization:

  • Defining language

  • Defining locale

  • Organizing content

As you’ll see, however, language codes and country codes are ...

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