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kijeda on July 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: ISO name change for Türkiye

Are you sure its not in reference to "Greek" the language, rather than "Greece" the country? "el" is coding for Greek in ISO 639, IANA language subtags, etc.

bloak on July 12, 2022 [–]

It does seem to be EL for the country. See, for example: https://publications.europa.eu/code/pdf/370000en.htm

EDIT: Perhaps it would have been nice if ISO 639 and ISO 3166 had been better coordinated so we didn't have cs_CZ, da_DK, sv_SE, ...

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