Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
2010/10/4 Marc Paré<[email protected]>:
The ISO country codes were devised for such situations. The recognized
German language code is now "ger" as seen by the ISO Country code charts.
Thanks for this lecture, it's the first time I even hear/read about
those 3-letter codes. In all the years of internet usage, in web,
usenet, mail I never came across this. Whenever somebody referred to
Germany and the language German it was "de". You never stop
learning...
So we should change all the URLs for the language-specific pages like
mageia.org/de into mageia.org/ger (and all other languages) same with
the IRC channels, unless the channels are country-related. I wonder
whether the users of such pages and channels know this. I don't think
that anybody in Germany would search for "ger"...
How would you suggest to solve this?
Language codes are regulated by iso 639.
According to Wikipedia, there are 4 different codes available for the
german language.
"de" is defined under iso 639-1
"ger" is a "bibliographic" code defined under 639-2, for compatibility
with historical usage. (As used in english, probably.)
"deu" is a "technical" code defined under 639-2, for other usages.
It is also the code defined under 639-3.
Note that 639-2 defines codes for *groups* of languages.
Since for IRC usage, one is definitely NOT seeking compatibility with
historical (probably english language) usage, "ger" should NOT be used.
If I were you, I would continue to use "de". But you could always
switch to "deu" if you want a 3-letter code.
- André (andre999)
