[tei-council] CH and Language Tags

[Martin Holmes]

Last call for responses on this. If no-one has any objections, I'm going 
to go ahead and do it in the next couple of days...

On 12-07-04 08:26 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The more I look at the instructions for constructing language tags in
> the CH chapter, the less I like them. I do, however, like these two
> excellent guides, one higher-level and the other more practical:
>
> <http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/>
>
> <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-choosing-language-tags>
>
> I'm inclined to replace all of our confusing and outdated info with
> something which simply says:
>
>    - BCP47 is the authoritative guide to best practice.
>
>    - IANA's language subtag registry is the authoritative list of
> recommended subtags.
>
>    - The first document above (language-tags) gives a solid overview of
> the process of constructing language tags.
>
> - The second document (qa-choosing-language-tags) gives a detailed set
> of step-by-step instructions for choosing appropriate language tags.
>
> Does anyone see any objection to this? Right now we have vague and
> misleading instructions, and although we could rewrite them, where
> better authoritative sources exist, it makes more sense, I think, to
> refer readers to them.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>

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