On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> To clean up some mess in loading the patterns, it would be nice to go >> the other way around, and start from proper Unicode (UTF-8) patterns >> and let (pdf)TeX interpret UTF-8 patterns in its own way instead of >> both XeTeX and LuaTeX having to deal with some really weird encodings >> in patterns. > > Great! Could we also try to get away from the naming mess and use > standards tags for languages? The relevant document is IETF Best > Current Practice 47 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47) -- currently it's > RFC 4646 and 4647, but it's under revision. It's already well on its > way, but some tags could be modified. I can prepare the complete list > of tags for languages in language.dat
Oh, thanks. That would be really welcome. I forgot about that document already. German needs some improvements in naming indeed. The same is true for "a variant of US patterns" (ushyphmax). Have fun :) Mojca
