(iso639.1937) ISO 639-2/T language code for Simple CHinese
Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com
Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com
Tue Apr 18 19:57:14 CEST 2006
Or zh-cmn-Hant and zh-cmn-Hans -- if you believe you will have a need now
or in the future to distinguish written Mandarin from written Cantonese or
another Chinese language. This tagging is more specific. The "cmn" stands
for Mandarin Chinese.
Karen Broome
Metadata Systems Designer
Sony Pictures Entertainment
310.244.4384
ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no wrote on 04/18/2006 08:17:21 AM:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> > bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Sudhindra Kumar
>
> > Can you please let me know the ISO 639-2/T language code for Simple
> > CHinese?
>
> "Simplified" as opposed to "Traditional Chinese" is not a language
> distinction but rather a distinction in written form -- orthography.
> ISO 639 does not make such distinctions. The ISO 639-2/T identifier
> "zho" is used for both.
>
> To distinguish these, you can use the RFC 3066bis tags "zh-Hans"
and"zh-Hant."
>
>
> Peter Constable
>
>
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