Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:40 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I have noticed that ConTeXt uses gr for Greek, but the ISO code seems to be el. Less problematic: should agr be grc instead? (OpenType uses PGR, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.) What do the Greek experts say? Hi Mojca, I have no

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
No! deo ist modern German in old orthography (pre-2005). OK, so I guess that's what RFC 4646 suggests de-1996 for -- I suppose the reform was first introduced in 1996 and adopted only later? See ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4646.txt, page 13 (Mojca, the preceding paragraph is for you

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Norwegian (which is not a language at all) Nobody reacted to that part, so I guess that means no one knowledgeable in Norwegian read it ... I wish to make sure that we did not by no mean intend on insulting Norway or Norwegian-speaking people ;-) We are only trying to sort things out and

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/5/07, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Norwegian (which is not a language at all) Nobody reacted to that part, so I guess that means no one knowledgeable in Norwegian read it ... I wish to make sure that we did not by no mean intend on insulting Norway or Norwegian-speaking people ;-) We

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: It's the ISO-639-2 alpha-3 code for Greek, Ancient (to 1453) -- May 29th, I believe ;-) See http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt Arthur Ah, thanks! In that case, yes, let's go for

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/12/5, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I have noticed that ConTeXt uses gr for Greek, but the ISO code seems to be el. Less problematic: should agr be grc instead? (OpenType uses PGR, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.) What do the Greek experts say? Well, English is

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/12/5, Arthur Reutenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No! deo ist modern German in old orthography (pre-2005). OK, so I guess that's what RFC 4646 suggests de-1996 for -- I suppose the reform was first introduced in 1996 and adopted only later? See

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: It's the ISO-639-2 alpha-3 code for Greek, Ancient (to 1453) -- May 29th, I believe ;-) See http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt Arthur Ah, thanks! In that case, yes, let's go for grc. I had no idea ISO was

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I have noticed that ConTeXt uses gr for Greek, but the ISO code seems to be el. Less problematic: should agr be grc instead? (OpenType uses PGR, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.) What do the Greek experts say? etc etc note: this language inventory

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
I have no strong opinion regarding gr/el, but what would grc stand for? It's the ISO-639-2 alpha-3 code for Greek, Ancient (to 1453) -- May 29th, I believe ;-) See http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt Arthur

[NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I have noticed that ConTeXt uses gr for Greek, but the ISO code seems to be el. Less problematic: should agr be grc instead? (OpenType uses PGR, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.) What do the Greek experts say? Well, English is a story on its own. us and uk don't have their own