Hi Pierre, Niall,
Pierre Gorissen wrote:
> Hi Niall,
>
> See comments in text...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> 2. Using en-GB as the general.language and also for the
> langstrings throughout the metadata is not recognised by these
> systems – should I just revert to en?
>
>
>
> Pierre: Yes, see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt section 2.3
> "Choice of language tag" says:
>
> 2. When a language has both an ISO 639-1 2-character code and an ISO
> 639-2 3-character code, you MUST use the tag derived from the ISO
> 639-1 2-character code.
>
But that refers to the choice of "en" or "eng" for the language part of the
code. There's nothing wrong with using en-GB as opposed to en-US. Having said
that I would be interested in knowing what systems which don't implement country
variations for languages do when they get "en-GB" or similar. Hopefully they
just accept the "en" part.
Phil.
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