Globalization Reference Sites
* Primary Reference Sites
Global Internet Statistics- by language The best reference for language information.
The number of people on-line by country
Other reference info from UNA Limited
ITM Solutions An annotated set of data for countries, so there's some history.
General Reference Sites and General Info Reference
Global Web Development - Jakob Nielson Column
More Detailed Sources
A general intro - discussing Apache Server How To Make a Multi-Lingual Web Server - Univ of Vancouver
http://vancouver-Webpages.com/multilingual/howto.html
ISO639 2-character language codes - a copy, not the original source reference http://vancouver-Webpages.com/multilingual/iso639a.txt
ISO3166 2-character country codes - a copy, not the original source reference http://vancouver-Webpages.com/multilingual/ccodes.txt
RFC 1766 - Tags for the Identification of Languages ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt- the actual reference.
One person's opinion about language development on the web From The Independent July 8, 1997
A framework for evaluating web sites from a customer's perspective of value-added.
A Global Study of Commercial Sites- by James Ho, University of Illinois at Chicago Internet Leapfrog: The Impact of the Internet on Global Economic Competition - APR may leapfrog Europe by 2001