Quoting Amos Jeffries (squ...@treenet.co.nz): > Problem 1) Alphabets versus Languages > I've hit it with Serbian. They use two different alphabets Latin and > Cyrillic. But only one language. > Distinguished by two codes sr-Latn and sr-Cyrl. The same issue occurs in > Chinese Hans/Hant/Ming/* and has been hacked around previously by appending > the specific ISO-3166 country code where its most frequently needed. > > What I'm hoping for is to use the ISO-3066 alphabet codes as part of the > language tag somewhere.
This is indeed the first time I hear about ISO-3066. As one of the iso-codes maintainers, I know about ISO-15924, which is meant to be a standard for script names. We include it in the package since October 2007. Reference is http://unicode.org/iso15924/ Example entry in the XML file we provide: <iso_15924_entry alpha_4_code="Cyrl" numeric_code="220" name="Cyrillic" /> <iso_15924_entry alpha_4_code="Cyrs" numeric_code="221" name="Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic variant)" /> .../... <iso_15924_entry alpha_4_code="Latn" numeric_code="215" name="Latin" /> These examples use your own example. Note that the alpha4 code is indeed the same. I'd say that ISO-15924 seems to be an evolution of 3066 or something like this. WRT your general message, I agree that using ISO 15924 codes in locale names would be a great progress over the current hacks implemented in various ways (zh_CN vs. zh_TW as a hack between Simplified and Traditional Chinese....or "Hans" vs. "Hant", or variants for Serbian, or probably others I don't know about). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Translate-pootle mailing list Translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
