Re: lang_term and lang_lib in LC_ADDRESS

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>]

Hi,

On 2014-04-29 18:02, Keld Simonsen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:33:36PM +0300, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>>
>> do you happen to know/remember the story behind lang_term and lang_lib
>> in LC_ADDRESS? Some sources say they both should be three-letter ISO
>> 639-2 codes but some of the more dependable glibc locales (e.g. de_DE)
>> use "deu" and "ger" for them.
> 
> lang_term reflects ISO 639-2/T (terminology) codes, while
> lang_lib reflects ISO 639-2/B (bibliographic) codes.
> lang_term is preferred over lang_lib codes for locale names.
> There are 20 specific ISO 639-2/B codes.
> 
> Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2

thanks, Library of Congress hosts ISO 639-2 online [1,2] so I was able
to ran a (scripted) check for glibc which revealed few inconsistencies.

How does the attach patch look like?

1) http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
2) http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt

Thanks,

-- 
Marko Myllynen

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