[tei-council] CH and BCP 47 again

[Kevin Hawkins]

On 6/26/12 12:17 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Re-examining the CH chapter and BCP 47, I have a couple of things I'd
> like to run by you. The first is this bit:
>
> "Languages are identified by a language subtag, which may be a two
> letter code taken from ISO 639-1 or a three letter code taken from ISO
> 639-2."
>
> This is in line with BCP 47, which does not AFAICS express a preference
> for two- or three-letter codes where both exist.

No, it does express this preference.  On page 4, it says that the 
language code must be the "shortest ISO 639 code".

--K.