Re: [xtm-wg] language.xtm

[Murray Altheim <altheim@eng.sun.com>]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> 
> I just noticed that the language.xtm topic map that is part of XTM 1.0
> only contains the languages that have 2-letter codes in ISO 639. This,
> however, is far from all the languages to which codes are assigned in
> ISO 639. In fact, the majority only have 3-letter codes.

Steve Pepper brought this up in the meeting on Saturday, and we had some
lively and productive discussion.
 
> I am at the moment updating a topic map that has topics for languages
> like Konkani, Khasi, Rajasthani, Manipuri and many more, which only
> have ISO 639 codes, and so no topics in the language.xtm topic map.
> 
> The question is: what should I do? Create my own PSIs for these? The
> problem is that lots of other people will be bound to do the same.  Or
> is there still time to extend language.xtm? It is, after all, in beta
> stage.

I'm currently in the process of updating language.xtm as per the new
three letter codes, and will be providing backward compatibility with
the current language.xtm two-letter ones. I'll also be updating the
country.xtm topic map as per changes there too. The topic map is almost
done, but I need to finish up the report.

I expect to publishing these two updates as well as a Technical Report
describing best practice usage, entitled "Internationalization in XTM",
which should be available within a week or so.

BTW, it's only in Beta because I labelled it as such, knowing that I
needed to deal with the three letter codes. Its status is a bit 
ambiguous, since it's a normative part of the XTM 1.0 Specification.
This is why I must assure backwards compatibility in its update.

Murray

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