On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> hyph-de-1996 is a misnomer -- it should be hyph-de-2006 instead. > > de-1996 is the RFC 4646 tag for the last reform of the German > orthography, registered by the IANA > (http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry). RFC 4646 > "Tags for Identifying Languages", best referred to as IETF Best Current > Practice n°47 (http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt), can account for > all sort of language variants, and it is the only language tagging > system I know that it so precise as to distinguish between all the > languages we have in TeX Live. Often, ISO 639 tags are simply not > enough.
Only one question - why are we dropping the casing (latn instead of Latn, gb intead of GB, ...)? Mojca
