Re: [ubl-dev] Re: [ubl] Issue: two-letter or three-letter language codes?

["Roberto Cisternino" <roberto@javest.com>]

To offer a meet-in-the-middle solution we could provide in the root of the
UBL document a new BIE to provide a default Language or better a full
Locale (so not a BIE but ABIE).

It will be a similar feature to the default currency for an UBL document.

The implementer will be enabled to use any ISO language code and we could
just provide a default codelist (external decoupled genricode list)

At least there wll be the way to assert the docuemnt is expressed with a
specific Locale/language.

Roberto


> Hello,
> I apologies as I provided an answer about countries and not languages.
>
> The concept described by Andrea is correct but it is an extended concept
> associated to a "Locale" which is a precise indication about a language,
> its variant and the country where it is used.
>
> The plain language code list is provided by ISO639-2 and the 3-letters
> language is more precise and complete then the 2-letters version.
>
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Roberto
>
>> The most commonly used syntax for language codes is specified in
>> RFC5646,
>> it is an Internet Best Current Practice.
>> A language tag is expressed by a sequence of subtags separated by a dash
>> "-".
>> The first subtag is the primary subtag and is mandatory. It is the
>> shortest ISO 639 code (i.e. it is a 2 or 3 characters code where the 3
>> characters code is used only if the language does not exist in the 2
>> characters code list).
>> It is recommended use lowercase for languages to distinguish between
>> from
>> countries (e.g. IT=Italy; it=Italian).
>>
>> Additional tags are used to specify the script and the region, for
>> example:
>> - "en-US" represents English ('en') as used in the United States ('US').
>> - "sr-Latn-RS" represents Serbian ('sr') written using Latin script
>> ('Latn') as used in Serbia ('RS').
>>
>> Coming back to UBL, a 2 char code is probably ok in most cases (if you
>> do
>> not have the need to refer to a language not included in the list of 2
>> char length codes, this is not common).
>> Using upper case is not recommended but not forbidden by ISO639-1.
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>>
>> Il giorno 10/mar/2011, alle ore 16.40, Jon Bosak ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hello UBL TC and developers,
>>>
>>> A question has arisen with regard to language codes.  It appears that
>>> UN/CEFACT uses the ISO three-letter lowercase language codes, whereas
>>> UBL currently includes a list of ISO two-letter uppercase language
>>> codes
>>> (both are ISO standards as far as we know).  We're not going to be
>>> inclined to change something in 2.1 that already shipped in 2.0, so the
>>> question is: does anyone know of a good reason why UBL should switch to
>>> the three-letter lowercase form?
>>>
>>> We need to have this issue resolved by next week, so if anyone has an
>>> opinion, please let us know ASAP.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
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