[sword-devel] Localised language names for third party modules?

[David Haslam]

Chris,

Thanks for steering us to the proper authority.

I will drop a line to bro. Yesudas, with a request that he correct those
language codes.

David

Chris Little-2 wrote:
> 
> 
> This is not CrossWire's guideline, this is IETF's BCP, which we follow. 
> ONLY the two-letter code is permitted. In the cases of both two- and 
> three-letter codes existing for a language, the three-letter codes are 
> explicitly undefined and should not be used, under any circumstances. To 
> quote RFC 4646:
> 
>     Note: For languages that have both an ISO 639-1 two-character code
>     and an ISO 639-2 three-character code, only the ISO 639-1 two-
>     character code is defined in the IANA registry.
> 
> Yes, anyone employing non-standard codes, including ISO 639-2/3 codes 
> when a 639-1 code is available, should be asked to correct those codes.
> 
> If Karl wants to support non-standard codes within Xiphos on a 
> case-by-case basis, that's his prerogative, but these will absolutely 
> not be supported in the master locale list 
> (https://crosswire.org/svn/sword-tools/trunk/locales/).
> 
> --Chris
> 

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