Microsoft KB Archive/192311

= Wrong ISO language code displayed in Keyboard dialog box =

Article ID: 192311

Article Last Modified on 8/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q192311



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.

