Re: [sword-devel] ISO language codes

2021-01-17 Thread Jamie
his removes any ambiguity -- but may not help if you have software which expects to have a specific kind of code. Jamie -Original Message- From: domcox [mailto:domini...@corbex.org] Sent: 12 January 2021 16:17 To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum Cc: Jamie Subject: Re: [sword

Re: [sword-devel] ISO language codes

2021-01-12 Thread domcox
Jamie writes: The Sword config file contains an ISO language code. Is anyone able to tell me what this gets used for (and more specifically, whether there is any requirement as to whether this should be a 2-character code or a 3-character one)? I not have much knowledge of this, but afte

Re: [sword-devel] ISO language codes

2021-01-12 Thread David Haslam
Hi Jamie, One use is to support a language tree structure in the IntallMgr UI for some front-end apps. Xiphos & PocketSword are examples of such. And Bible - on the other hand - doesn’t present such a tree structure. Regards, David Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:59,

Re: [sword-devel] ISO language codes

2021-01-12 Thread Michael H
Hi David, The various language tables are lists. They come together by established rules: BCP-47. If you read BCP 47 it makes sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag (link to the spec in the footnotes.) On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:23 AM David Haslam wrote: > Hi Jamie, > > One

[sword-devel] ISO language codes

2021-01-12 Thread Jamie
The Sword config file contains an ISO language code. Is anyone able to tell me what this gets used for (and more specifically, whether there is any requirement as to whether this should be a 2-character code or a 3-character one)? (In fact I see IANA now have a new registry of codes which superse