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

[Gabriel Bodard]

As far as I can tell, the new IANA list replaces all the previous items 
we might have cited, yes. (See 
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-2or3.en.php )

G

On 2011-12-08 16:36, Martin Holmes wrote:
> On 11-12-08 05:33 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> Ah, we should probably update the reference in CH to point to this in
>> that case.
>
> It's a fairly long and complicated section:
>
> <http://bits.nsms.ox.ac.uk:8080/jenkins/job/TEIP5-Documentation/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Guidelines-web/en/html/CH.html#CHSH>
>
> How does the new IANA list relate to BCP 47 and the two ISO standards?
> Does RFC 5646 (which I think is the RFC for the new subtag-registry)
> just replace BCP 47?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
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