Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Amos Jeffries ([email protected]): > >> 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/
Ah thanks. Good to know. > > 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. I guess so. I only found the ISO-3066 code this week in some fairly old university language papers about Serbian/Croatian alphabet splits. > > 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). > So far I know of Chinese and Serbian for certain, with hints indicating Azerbaijan and Croatian will need it in future as well. Amos Squid Project ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle
