>
> 2007/12/5, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>:
>
> > - deo -> ? (if at all)
> >      gmh - German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
> >      goh - German, Old High (ca.750-1050)


No! "deo" ist modern German in old orthography (pre-2005).

> 1.) In German, Slovenian, Croatian, (maybe in other languages as well)
> > ... one can use two types of quotes:
> > - „" U+201E/U+201C & ‚' U+201A/U+2018 (sorry, a bug in gmail reencodes
> them)
> > - »« U+00BB/U+00AB & ›‹ U+203A/U+2039
> It is also common two write «text ‹text› text» in German.


That's Swiss (de_CH). In de_DE the guillemets point inwards.
(Difference between de_CH and fr: in French they have French spacing, i.e.
space between punctuation and word.)


> > 4.) deo
> > \mainlanguage[de][alternative=old] ??? (no idea what that is about)
>
> The old rules should't be used any longer :-)


Don't think too short: You might want to typeset older texts in their
typography. Or if you work for FAZ guys.



I think we should keep the current syntax with mkii and allow better control
> in the mkiv code.
>

It's a pity that ConTeXt uses non-standard codes at all. But I guess we
should keep backwards compatibility.
Perhaps we could introduce the ISO codes as ISO.de_DE or the like?

Greetlings, Hraban