On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 00:39 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote: > Christian PERRIER wrote: > > 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/ > > 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.
...and Belarusian Latin is assigned to "b...@latin" in glibc (IIRC Serbian uses '@Latn' tag for the same thing). Actually, these locale 'variants' don't have good support in different l10n software (f.e. Rosetta doesn't know about their existance at all). > > 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 > Translate-pootle@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/translate-pootle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
