[tei-council] CH and BCP 47 again

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-06-26 10:11 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> 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".

Thanks Kevin, I missed that. I've made it explicit in our chapter now.

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)