Re: docbook and xml:lang attribute

Hi Albert - regarding Norwegian, see below:

On 3 Jun 2020, at 15:40, Albert wrote:

> Doxygen can output in quite a few languages (the quality is depending 
> on
> the provided translations by developers / users).
>
>    - When I create output for the languages and convert to RTF I get 
> for
>    most languages a translation of words like chapter, but not for 
> Armenian
>    (language code hy) and Macedonian (language code mk). Is this 
> intentional?
>    - For the Norwegian language the language code no is not supported,
>    supported is Nynorsk (nn) so not a big problem for me though is the 
> not
>    supporting of no on purpose?


As I think Hussein showed, in a later message, there is support for "nn" 
(Norwegian Nynorsk) and "nb" (Norwegian Bokmål). The code "no" in 
theory covers the same as "nn" + "nb" - thus: both Norwegian Bokmål and 
Norwegian Nynorsk. And hence, you really do not have any problem - as 
long as you know what you are doing.

The "no" code is defined as tag for the "macrolanguage" Norwegian (where 
"macrolanguage" in this context is a term that means what the language 
tagging system says that it means). It is directly comparable to how 
"zh" is code for "Chinese". But as we know, even if it is common to say 
"Chinese language", there is no **the** Chinese language, there are 
several Chinese languages - "zh" does covers the family of Chinese 
langauges. Thus you really should not use "zh", but should rather use 
the code for Mandarin or what have you.

The same is the case for "no": According to how the official the 
language tagging/coding systems views it - there is no **the** Norwegian 
language, there are two Norwegian languages, and as a consequence you 
really should not use "no", you should use either "nn" or "nb". The same 
goes for "zh".

One could split hairs about whether it still is useful to use "no" and 
"zh" - and bring up arguments about what people de facto anyway do use. 
But that’s for another occation.

BTW: Perhaps you are Norwegian you yourself, Albert. But anyway, in 
Norwegian school, pupils study the subject "Norwegian". However, 
everyone knows that this means that you either learn Norwegian Bokmål 
or Norwegian Nynonorsk (as your ***main*** language), dependening on the 
preferred norm/variant in the area where the school is situated and/or - 
as pupils grow up - depending on the choice of the pupil/student. So in 
theory, on could tag the subject "Norwegian" as "no". However, the 
content of that subject will always be either "nn" or "nb", so really, 
you do not need "no".

Leif Halvard Silli


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