Re: [xml] xml:lang iso639-2 / rfc3066 / rfc 1766 obsolete

["Cory Nelson" <phrosty gmail com>]

On Dec 12, 2007 1:18 AM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 04:42:13PM +0100, Friedbert Wekerle wrote:
> > Dear wizzards of libxml,
> >
> > I'm missing the support of
> >
> > 'xml:lang="grc"'
> >
> > (Old greek)
> >
> > in libxml;
> >
> > I'm using version libxml2-2.6.30;
> >
> > For example, the the xerces-Parser accepts 3-letter language-Codes as valid ones.
> >
> > I found, rfc 3066 obsoletes rfc 1766
> > (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3066.html)
> >
> > Have I got a possibility of adding
> > other languagecodes as valid ones,
> > especially "grc" or removing the validation
> > against the builtin enumeration of languagecodes?
> > (without changing the data)
>
>   you can define encoding aliases at the library level, yes
>     http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-encoding.html#xmlAddEncodingAlias
>
> in general iconv has a fairly extensive list of encoding supported and
> and even longuer set of aliases (assuming you have a recent system and
> libraries), and on my Linux system there is around 20 names for greek
> encodings and aliases.

He speaks of language codes (ie, en-US), not encodings.

-- 
Cory Nelson