From: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Problem with encoding
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:19:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101221111915.GD22180@aides> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101221101133.GJ29474@phare.normalesup.org>
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On 2010-12-21 <11:11:33>, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > BTW: What is the difference what the COUNTRY code and the LANGUAGE code affects?
>
> In your case, you should use a language code since you want to set a
> language. ConTeXt has used different sets of codes in the past, but we
> now try to follow IETF recommendation "Tag for Identifying Languages"
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47), because it's the only one that can
> be precise enough for our needs (at least among the tagging systems I
> know of). For example, you can distinguish between British English and
> American English by appending a country code to the language code (hence
> "en-gb" and "en-us", respectively). Using a country code to identify a
> language is generally a bad idea and should be discouraged, since that's
> not what they're meant for, and it can lead to confusion: for example,
> you could use the code "uk" to identify English as spoken in the United
> Kingdom, but that's actually the language code for Ukrainian, which has
> been an actual problem for ConTeXt in the post (in addition to that,
> "uk" is not even the proper language code for the United Kingdom: it's
> "gb", as written above; the reason why "uk" is used as a DNS top-level
> domain is not clear and has lead, alas, to even more confusion).
But context uses some non-standard codes also: “deo” instead of
“de-1901” for sane German orthography, and “agr” for ancient
Attic instead of “grc” or “el-polyton”. (Testfile appended.)
Philipp
PS: nice tools
http://people.w3.org/rishida/utils/subtags/
http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/languageid.jsp
> The authorities that decide upon language and country codes are
> different committees of the ISO; the ISO standard for language codes is
> ISO 639 (with different parts), and the one for country codes is ISO 3166
> (again, with different parts; the two-letter codes of ISO 3166-1 are
> generally rather well-known because they're the ones being used for DNS
> top-level domains -- with some exceptions, see above).
>
> Arthur
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-21 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 8:34 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2010-12-21 9:29 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-12-21 9:37 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2010-12-21 10:05 ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-21 10:11 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-12-21 10:17 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2010-12-21 11:19 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2010-12-21 11:21 ` Philipp Gesang
2010-12-21 11:44 ` Thomas Schmitz
2010-12-21 12:23 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-12-21 12:35 ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-21 12:17 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-12-21 12:37 ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-21 10:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-12-21 10:35 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-12-21 9:43 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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