require 5;
package I18N::LangTags::List;
-# Time-stamp: "2001-06-20 12:01:15 MDT"
+# Time-stamp: "2002-02-02 20:13:58 MST"
use strict;
use vars qw(%Name $Debug $VERSION);
-$VERSION = '0.24';
+$VERSION = '0.25';
# POD at the end.
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
arbitrary-length non-ISO codes (like "i-mingo"), and the
recently (in 2001) introduced three-letter ISO-639-2 codes.
-Remember this important facts:
+Remember these important facts:
=over
I<means> something different than a language tag. A language tag
denotes a language. A locale ID denotes a language I<as used in>
a particular place, in combination with non-linguistic
-location-specific information such as what currency in used
+location-specific information such as what currency is used
there. Locales I<also> often denote character set information,
as in "en_US.ISO8859-1".
=item *
"Dialect" is not a useful term, since there is no objective
-criterion for establishing when two languages are
+criterion for establishing when two language-forms are
dialects of eachother, or are separate languages.
=item *
with cus "Cushitic (Other)" (i.e., a
language that has been classed as Cushtic, but which has no more
specific code) or the even less linguistically coherent
-sai for "South American Indian (Other)". While useful in
+sai for "South American Indian (Other)". Though useful in
bibliography, B<SUCH TAGS ARE NOT
FOR GENERAL USE>. For further guidance, email me.
=item {sv} : Swedish
Notable forms:
-sv-se {Sweden Swedish};
-sv-fi {Finland Swedish}.
+{sv-se} Sweden Swedish;
+{sv-fi} Finland Swedish.
=item {syr} : Syriac
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
-Copyright (c) 2001 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2001,2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.
You can redistribute and/or
modify this document under the same terms as Perl itself.