[tei-council] xml:lang="eng"

[Gabriel Bodard]

By the way, I recently discovered that there is now a single IANA 
registry of language codes so we no longer need to worry about looking 
in the 2-letter list, and then if we don't find what we're looking for 
move on to the 3-letter list. Instead, all codes, both 2- and 
(occasional) 3-letter (and 4-letter script codes) are listed on a single 
page at <http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry>, so 
there is no longer any danger of accidentally using a 3-digit code that 
has been deprecated in favour of its 2-digit replacement.

(For example, "Ancient Greek (to 1453)" is now unambiguously listed as 
"grc", so should not be confused with "el".)

I've found this very helpful while trying to decide how to tag Nabatean 
script in papyri...

G

On 2011-12-08 12:00, Lou Burnard wrote:
> The 3 letter codes presumably date from an older gentler time, when men
> had long hair and rejoiced in diversity...
>
>
>
> On 08/12/11 08:23, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> I certainly didn't leave three letter ones there on purpose! Fix them I say.
>> JamesC
>>
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>> James Cummings, InfoDev, OUCS, University of Oxford (via phone)
>>
>> Laurent Romary<laurent.romary at inria.fr>   wrote:
>>
>>
>> So yes, you're right there. These are things that should be changed.
>> Cheers,
>> Laurent
>>
>> Le 8 déc. 2011 à 04:15, Martin Holmes a écrit :
>>
>>> And I see<text xml:lang="fra">   too...
>>>
>>> On 11-12-07 07:14 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I thought we'd come to the conclusion that two-letter lang codes should
>>>> be used where they exist, and three-letter ones where they don't, but
>>>> ST-infrastructure.xml has lots of examples of
>>>>
>>>> xml:lang="eng"
>>>>
>>>> Before I change this, I thought I should check whether I'm wrong about
>>>> our conclusion, especially since James edited this file the other day,
>>>> and might have left "eng" alone on purpose.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)

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