[tex-hyphen] hyph-de-1996 misnomer

[Hans Hagen]

mojca miklavec wrote:

> 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, ...)?

because it prevents problems; best is to avoid case sensitivity in tex 
distributions

hans


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