[NUT-devel] questions about "Language" info packets

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:26:11PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > nut.txt says:
> > > |   "Language"
> > > |       ISO 639 and ISO 3166 for language/country code
> > > 
> > > Does "ISO 639" mean ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-2?
> > > Are both codes required or allowed?  If yes, in what format?
> > 
> > that is a very good question, as the example below is a ISO 639-2 code
> > i think its clear that ISO 639-2 is allowed
> > 
> > furthermore there is a link
> > http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html
> > pointng to 639-2 but none to 639-1 so id say 639-1 is not allowed
> > also all 639-1 codes have a code in 639-2 while many 639-2 codes
> > do not have one in 639-1
> > comments are of course welcome ...
> > 
> > > |       something like "eng" (US English)
> > > 
> > > When using a three-letter code from ISO 639-2, should a nut writer use
> > > the bibliographic or the terminology code?
> > 
> > that is also a very good question, i think none of us was aware that there
> > are 2 different codes for some languages (that is one based on the native
> > word for the language and one based on the english word) but luckily the
> > majority of the languages has just 1 code
> 
> And we Germans are out of luck and cannot use nut?  ;-)
> 
> If the language code were just used as a code, it wouldn't matter which
> one is to be used, but there are certain players that just display the
> raw code instead of converting it to a language name, so I think it
> makes sense to let the encoder choose which one to use.

hmm i understand both "deu" and "ger" equally good/bad


> 
> > > Are two-letter codes allowed at all?
> > 
> > id say no
> 
> So ISO 3166 is out, too?

ISO 3166 has 2 and 3 letter codes too but i wasnt speaking about that ...


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