Talk:Ifd:IfdLanguage

Comments: Ede Workshop:

What to do with International English? Suggestions: "en", "en-IG", "en-UV", "en-00" Håvard.Bell

Since language_code is a unique identifier for the language, a guid is not needed. Using the language_code as the identifier would make it flexible for everyone to add a language or to use the language_code as a parameter in queries. Kees Woestenenk

The language_code consists of two parts: a language part (from ISO 639) of which we have chosen the 3-character represention (lower case) and a country part (from ISO 3166), where we also use the three character representation (upper case) For "New Norwegian" this means the following code: "nno-NOR", for Dutch in the Netherlands we could either use "dut-NLD" or "nld-NLD" or "dut-DUT"; it would be preferable to make choice here. For 'international' languages (such as international English) we could use "INT" as the country code (eng-INT) and for languages that are not in the list we have to agree on a code (e.g. exp-EXP for EXPRESS). Kees Woestenenk