Hebrew marked as 'iw' on Google translate

[Matitiahu Allouche]

"iw" was the standard before it was declared obsolete and replaced by 
"he".

As far as I know, Java still recognizes "iw" only.


Shalom (Regards),  Mati
           Bidi Architect
           Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
           IBM Israel
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From:
Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com>
To:
linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
Date:
11/01/2010 07:04
Subject:
Hebrew marked as 'iw' on Google translate
Sent by:
linux-il-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il



Hi,

I was just looking at http://translate.google.com/
and noticed that the language code they use for hebrew is 'iw' and not 
'he'.
which would be the ISO 639-1 standard.

Any idea why are they using a different code?
Is it only Hebrew or do other languages have
code that is different from the ISO 639-1 in the Google
translation tool?

if there is some other standard where Hebrew is actually 'iw'
that might be the one Google is using?

regards
   Gabor

-- 
Gabor Szabo                     http://szabgab.com/

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