Why is the culture name for English (Caribbean) "en-029"?

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Solution

Michael Kaplan (aka Microsoft's Unicode guru) just wrote a blog post about that last week.

EDIT

And actually, if you read the comments you'll see that `029` isn't even an ISO 3166 code because ISO 3166 is only about countries. That's where UN M.49 comes in which defines codes that specify:

a wide variety of geographical, political, or economic regions, like a continent, a country, or a specific “group of developing countries”.

And that's where you get code `029` for Caribbean.

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