From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 23:18:54 EDT
--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org> wrote: >
Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org> wrote in
> news:3DA6F7DD.8010801@softcatala.org:
>
> > Northern Sami, se, se_fi
>
> This is incorrect. It should be 'se_NO', or
> preferably only 'se' (Northern Sami is used in both
> Norway, Sweden and Finland, but use a common
> orthography). But why do you use countries in the
> language tags? This only unnecessarily restricts
> their uses.
Thanks Karl. This always bugs me. We currently have
absurdities such as la-IT for Rennaiscance Latin.
What has the country code for Italy got to do with a
variety of a language belonging to a historic period?
Well there's no country code for "rennaissance" you
may say. Exactly. No country to me means don't put
a country - not pick whatever country.
Anyway I've wanted a real solution to this for ages
and a proper discussion about it so we can design it.
Please check out my oft-advertised bug report:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3227
"Need to extend language tags".
I think we need to invent a "language object" which
can hold more and more precise info than the mere ISO
tags. We should use the objects exclusively and only
(lossily) convert them to the ISO tags where necessary
for foreign file formats. Our own file format should
of course have a non-lossy equivalent.
There I said it (:
Andrew.
> --
> Karl Ove Hufthammer
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