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 ... [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. -- Voltaire