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

[Lou Burnard]

Ah, we should probably update the reference in CH to point to this in 
that case.

On 08/12/11 12:24, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> 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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>>> 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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