Wrong ISO Language Code Displayed In Keyboard Dialog Box

• Microsoft Windows 98
• Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release versions 2, 2.1, 2.5

SUMMARY

The Keyboard Properties dialog box displays an incorrect ISO (International Organization for Standardization) two-letter language code for the Croatian and Serbian languages. It displays "Sh" for both languages, instead of "Hr" for Croatian and "Sr" for Serbian.

NOTE: This occurs only in the Keyboard Properties dialog box. Typically, the taskbar indicator displays the correct abbreviation for the currently selected keyboard language.

MORE INFORMATION

Croatian and Serbian have recently been recognized as two distinct languages due to the establishment of The Republic of Croatia as an independent nation. Although both of these languages were once interpreted as dialects of the same root language, Serbo-Croat, the Croatian (Western) language uses Latin characters while the Serbian (Eastern) language uses both Latin and Cyrillic characters. Each keyboard driver produces different results, both of which are distinct from the standard English keyboard.

The correct two-letter abbreviation is displayed in the taskbar indicator when that language keyboard driver is selected. These abbreviations are set in the ISO-639 standard. The abbreviations can be derived from the native names for each language. "Hr" is from Hrvatski (Croatian), and "Sr" is from Srpksi (Serbian). "Sh" is the ISO-639 two-letter language code for the Serbo-Croat language.

The International Organization for Standardization is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries.

REFERENCES

ISO 639: 1988 Code for the representation of names of languages.

Additional query words: acronym balkan europe slavic yugoslavia

Keywords          : kbenv kbui win98 
Version           : WINDOWS:95
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo 

Last Reviewed: February 7, 1999