On 2002.10.11 22:18 Andrew Dunbar wrote: > --- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jordi Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > news:3DA6F7DD.8010801@;softcatala.org: > > > > > Northern Sami, se, se_fi > > > > This is incorrect. It should be 'se_NO', or > > preferably only 'se' (Northern Sami is used in both > > Norway, Sweden and Finland, but use a common > > orthography). But why do you use countries in the > > language tags? This only unnecessarily restricts > > their uses. > > Thanks Karl. This always bugs me. We currently have > absurdities such as la-IT for Rennaiscance Latin. > What has the country code for Italy got to do with a > variety of a language belonging to a historic period? > > Well there's no country code for "rennaissance" you > may say. Exactly. No country to me means don't put > a country - not pick whatever country. > > Anyway I've wanted a real solution to this for ages > and a proper discussion about it so we can design it. > Please check out my oft-advertised bug report: > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3227 > "Need to extend language tags". > I think we need to invent a "language object" which > can hold more and more precise info than the mere ISO > tags. We should use the objects exclusively and only > (lossily) convert them to the ISO tags where necessary > for foreign file formats. Our own file format should > of course have a non-lossy equivalent. > > There I said it (: > > Andrew. > > > -- > > Karl Ove Hufthammer > > ===== > http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > >
la-RO perhaps? su-UR sumarian? is there an assignment for "as", if so, we could use ay for Assyrian. For your amusement only.
