Hi On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:36:34PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: [...]
Are two-letter codes allowed at all?
id say no
So ISO 3166 is out, too?
I'm against 2-letter codes. The number of languages is way too large for these codes to be remotely sufficient.
ISO 3166 is about country codes and about half of the codes from the 2 letter codespace seem to be used or reserved in some way ...
OK. Proposed new description:
"Language" An ISO 639-2 (three-letter) language code, e.g. "eng" for English (see <http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php>). All codes defined in ISO 639-2 are allowed, including "und" (Undetermined), "mul" (Multiple languages) and the bibliographic/ terminology variants. For historical reasons, demuxers MUST treat "multi" like "mul" and "" (the empty string) like "und".
Historical reasons?? There are no such files, and this is a draft (albeit frozen) spec. I don't see any way that translating "multi" to "mul" and "" to "und" would improve functionality over just treating them as an unexpected value. If there's cruft in the spec that can be removed without really hurting anything, I'd like to remove it.
well then lets add a "a muxer MUST ignore unknown language and country codes instead of treating them as an error" [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. -- Plato