[tei-council] naming languages

[Christian Wittern]

Syd Bauman <Syd_Bauman at Brown.edu> writes:

>> oh look, this fun
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-registry-12.txt
>
> This, I believe, is a draft of the (much anticipated?) successor to
> RFC 3066. xml:lang= is already defined as "3066 or its successor",
> but IIRC there are sections of CH that will need to be updated when
> this becomes a real RFC.

Actually, this is the 12th version of a document that has been
discussed for years now.  We will have to see if they finish before P5
goes to press.

>
> Alejandro mentioned in Paris that 2-letter initial subcodes are
> preferred to 3-letter. I don't know if CH has been updated to reflect
> that yet. However, I just quickly checked this new draft, and it
> seems that when a 2-letter code is availalbe, it *must* be used, as
> the 3-letter version will not be in the IANA registry.

The draft of Chapter 4 is based on an earlier version, but so far I
have not seen anything that contradicts what we say.


All the best,

Christian

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