| Re: Language-sensitive names [message #254 is a reply to message #253] |
Thu, 12 May 2011 23:11   |
Susanne Wunsch railML
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Registered: January 2020
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Hi Tuomas,
thanks for your quick followup.
tuomastiihonen(at)mitroncom (Tuomas Tiihonen) writes:
> Looks good to me, however I wonder why the lang does not follow "ISO
> 639-1" anymore. If I understand correctly it now uses basically IETF BCP
> 47. Does someone know if ISO 639-1 has some language mapped differently
> than in IETF BCP 47? If those are different, it can cause problems, at
> least changes in the software if extra mapping is needed between the two
> language standards.
That's "old" XML style.
ISO 639-1 defines the alpha-2 language code. There are already another
alpha-3 language codes defined in ISO639-2. IETF BSP 47 mostly recycles
ISO 639-1 codes. For mapping hints see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag
("Relation to other standards")
639-1 639-2 IETF
German: 'de' 'ger' 'de', 'de-AT', 'de-CH', 'de-DE'
English: 'en' 'eng' 'en', 'en-US', 'en-GB'
Finnish: 'fi' 'fin' 'fi', 'fi-FI', 'fi-SE'
Swedish: 'sv' 'swe' 'sv', 'sv-SE', 'sv-FI'
N. Sami: 'se' 'sme' 'se'
Sorry for the disappointing answer.
Kind regards...
Susanne
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Susanne Wunsch
Schema Coordinator: railML.common
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