Re: ISO-639-2 language codes
Roché Compaan <roche-kb4xc5yObU3kQYj/0HfcvhBnub05S5/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.internationalization |
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| Organization | Upfront Systems |
| Message-ID | <1287774324.2311.152.camel@didi> |
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:14 +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Roché Compaan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 13:24 +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote: > >> I couldn't merge this change, as we don't support three letter > >> language names (ISO-639-2). We only support the two letter ISO-639-1 > >> form. > > > > Are there plans to move on to ISO-639-2? > > All our code (both in Plone and underlying Zope levels) is still based > on http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1766 to identify language tags. > > We would have to add support for the newer > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646 (published September 2009) that > allows three letter ISO-639-2 codes as the primary language tag. This > isn't quite as easy, as the HTTP 1.1 protocol via > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 only refers to the older RFC1766 > for the Accept-Language header. It's only via > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5987 that the header is allowed to use > the newer RFC5646. > > rfc5987 is extremely new and has only been published in August 2010. > So if we wanted to add support for this all, we'd need to make sure > our entire stack including any components parsing the HTTP header > support the new standard. > > With all of these complications, there's so far been nobody who wanted > to implement this and there hasn't been all that much demand for it > either. Hopefully we can talk about this at the Plone Conference. The OSI is funding the spec and i18n development for Connexions and this might be an opportunity to update the i18n stack in Plone. -- Roché Compaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plone-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plone-i18n