Michael Niedermayer wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:36:34PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: [...]
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 ...
But should three-letter country codes be allowed? In that case, how should the entire language string be formatted? Something like "lll-ccc" where both "lll" and "-ccc" are optional?
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.
Well, I interpreted "frozen" to mean that no incompatible changes could be made at all ...
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"
Agreed. Regards, Clemens