Amos Jeffries wrote: > 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. >
Looking at your referenced site I see _RFC_ 3066. Which is looks identical in listing to what the papers I found called an extract from ISO of same number. Amos ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
