FYI Proposed New ISO/IEC Standard
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Sat Mar 3 20:23:58 CET 2007
John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:
> This is a complaint by the Linguistic Society of America that the
> proposed OOXML ISO standard (aka Microsoft Office XML) doesn't use RFC
> 4646 (they are on a broken 639-1 plus 3166-1 subset of RFC 1766, both
> parts mandatory).
We should be grateful that the LSA did not stop at support for ISO 639-2
and -3, but recommended support for all of RFC 4646, scripts and
variants and all.
> <mock>Another nail in the OOXML coffin.</mock>
Sadly, there are still many applications whose understanding of language
tagging is incomplete, misguided, or outdated.
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