On 16 Feb 02, at 21:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Philip Newton wrote: > > > is the language code for (all of) Chinese. > > I think not.
Source, please? > ZH is the ISO code of Mainland China. I think you are confusing country codes (ISO 3166) with languages codes (ISO 639). The country code for "China" is CN or CHN or 156; the country code for "Taiwan, Province of China" [sic] is TW or TWN or 158. See, for example, http://www-old.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso3166.txt or http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html or http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html . The language code for "Chinese" is zh or chi/zho. See, for example, http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm or http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html or http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_639.html . "Chinese as spoken in Mainland China" (if that has a meaning) would be zh-CN; "Chinese as spoken in Taiwan" would be zh-TW. This is similar to "German as spoken in Austria" which would be de-AT. > And they use simplified Chinese which is not encoded in Big5. But the spoken language is the same, isn't it? It's "ZH", in both cases. > But I don't think Mdn is universal enough, either, because it doesn't > include Cantonese. Good point :) > Can you give me some more suggestions? >From my understanding, I would use Lingua::ZH::* if you are dealing with Chinese -- and as far as I know, Big5 encoding is only used for languages and dialects which are collectively considered as "Chinese". Otherwise, possibly something under Text::* or String::*? Not so sure there, however. I would also recommend asking the [EMAIL PROTECTED] folks who also know a bit about precedent and which modules ended up in which namespace. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
