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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 19 Nov 2001.
Re: Some small ASCII Icons

Re: Some small ASCII Icons

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:53:47 +0400, "Poster" <NOS...@POSTER.net> provoked the
following text:

>Try deciphering these
>Bet many here have not even heard of these languages...
>
>AR

Arabic

>FA

Farsi

>SA

Sanskrit

>UR

Urdu

>TA

Tamil

>SW

Swahili

>IN

Indonesian

>KN

Konkani

>MS

Malay

>MA

Marathi

Oh, and BE is Belarussian and CA is Catalan, i still don't know what GB is
supposed to be.

>> >GB? What language is that? It's certainly not one of the ISO 639
>> >language codes.
>>
>> Ermmm... Brittish English (as in US English)).
>>
>> >(It might be a country code according to ISO 3166, but using that for
>> >languages doesn't make sense. For example, what language would 'CH' be?
>>
>> I think that would be Swiss.
>>
>> >or 'BE'?
>>
>> Belgian.
>>
>> >Or even 'CA'?)
>>
>> Californian. :-)

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        Peter Punk
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