On 2010-12-21 <11:11:33>, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > BTW: What is the difference what the COUNTRY code and the LANGUAGE code > > affects? > > In your case, you should use a language code since you want to set a > language. ConTeXt has used different sets of codes in the past, but we > now try to follow IETF recommendation "Tag for Identifying Languages" > (http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47), because it's the only one that can > be precise enough for our needs (at least among the tagging systems I > know of). For example, you can distinguish between British English and > American English by appending a country code to the language code (hence > "en-gb" and "en-us", respectively). Using a country code to identify a > language is generally a bad idea and should be discouraged, since that's > not what they're meant for, and it can lead to confusion: for example, > you could use the code "uk" to identify English as spoken in the United > Kingdom, but that's actually the language code for Ukrainian, which has > been an actual problem for ConTeXt in the post (in addition to that, > "uk" is not even the proper language code for the United Kingdom: it's > "gb", as written above; the reason why "uk" is used as a DNS top-level > domain is not clear and has lead, alas, to even more confusion).
But context uses some non-standard codes also: “deo” instead of
“de-1901” for sane German orthography, and “agr” for ancient
Attic instead of “grc” or “el-polyton”. (Testfile appended.)
Philipp
PS: nice tools
http://people.w3.org/rishida/utils/subtags/
http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/languageid.jsp
> The authorities that decide upon language and country codes are
> different committees of the ISO; the ISO standard for language codes is
> ISO 639 (with different parts), and the one for country codes is ISO 3166
> (again, with different parts; the two-letter codes of ISO 3166-1 are
> generally rather well-known because they're the ones being used for DNS
> top-level domains -- with some exceptions, see above).
>
> Arthur
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