From 976e2ac06f0f5a35e02d7e1b33bca1baeb0d50b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michiel Meeuwissen Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 16:10:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.adoc --- README.adoc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index af7c0f9..dc43943 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ image:https://img.shields.io/nexus/s/https/oss.sonatype.org/org.meeuw.i18n/i18n- image:https://codecov.io/gh/mihxil/i18n-iso-639/branch/main/graph/badge.svg[codecov,link=https://codecov.io/gh/mihxil/i18n-iso-639] -Codes for Languages of the World are covered by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-3[ISO-639-3 standard] +Codes for Languages (and language groups) of the World are covered by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639[ISO-639 standard] -This standard provides a 3-letter code for each language. +These standards provides a letter codes for each language. E.g. ISO-639-3 provides a three letter code for all living languages. There are too many such codes to be contained in a java-enum (e.g. https://github.com/TakahikoKawasaki/nv-i18n/blob/master/src/main/java/com/neovisionaries/i18n/LanguageAlpha3Code.java is just not complete)