[tex-hyphen] hyph-de-1996 misnomer

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> hyph-de-1996 is a misnomer -- it should be hyph-de-2006 instead.
>
>  de-1996 is the RFC 4646 tag for the last reform of the German
> orthography, registered by the IANA
> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry).  RFC 4646
> "Tags for Identifying Languages", best referred to as IETF Best Current
> Practice n°47 (http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt), can account for
> all sort of language variants, and it is the only language tagging
> system I know that it so precise as to distinguish between all the
> languages we have in TeX Live.  Often, ISO 639 tags are simply not
> enough.

Only one question - why are we dropping the casing (latn instead of
Latn, gb intead of GB, ...)?

Mojca