Chris,
I have posted again to the xsl-editors on this. Here is the text.
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Eds,
My apologies for not having followed this up more doggedly. Through RFC
3066 I found my way to the ISO 639-2 3-letter codes, ISO 639-2/T
(Terminology) and ISO 639-2/B (Bibliographic).
Fortunately, Section 2.3, Choice of language tag, of RFC 3066 includes:
2. When a language has both an ISO 639-1 2-character code and an ISO
639-2 3-character code, you MUST use the tag derived from the ISO
639-1 2-character code.
This is handy, because it resolves the 639-2/T vs. 639-2/B selection
problem. However, it contradicts the XSL spec quoted below.
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So, your two-letter stuff is The Right Stuff after all.
On a related issue, I was spanked by Max for CCing fop-dev on this,
because of the risk of directing subsequent discussions of the topic on
fop-dev into the xsl-editors list. I see that this has happened.
Sorry Max.
Peter
Christopher R. Maden wrote:
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>>In 5.11 the spec. has:
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>><country>
>> A string of characters conforming to an ISO 3166 country code.
>><language>
>> A string of characters conforming to the ISO 639 3-letter code.
>>
>>In the copies of the references that I have been recovered, ISO 639 is a
>>2-letter code. ISO 3166, on the other hand, defines both 2- and 3-letter
>>country codes. Is the spec correct here?
>>
>
> By definition, yes... (-:
>
> ISO 639 defines both 2- and 3-letter language codes; see <URL:
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm >. I actually hadn't noticed
> that the Recommendation requires the 3-letter form; that's a bit of a
> bummer since XML itself allows the two-letter form, which means that a lot
> of my content has things like xml:lang="en-US" in it, which apparently
> can't just be copied into FO output.
>
> ~Chris
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