Hi Denny,
I think that using an open spec like Microsoft's LCID would probably come
in useful here? There are mappings to ISO codes, etc.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-lcid/70feba…
I'm not an expert in this particular area, but I do know that in present
day, from some scientists, that this is how some of their systems interact
with Digit's rather than Letters when there is a need.
There is some history with LCID's here also with W3C, IANA and other orgs,
but I was never a part of the standards or open spec drafts at the time in
the 90's, so I don't know the history.
https://www.w3.org/International/ms-lang.html
So you might have to poke some other folks more in the know than myself.
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
https://calendly.com/thadguidry/
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 7:17 PM Denny Vrandečić <dvrandecic(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
How would you assign languages to ZIDs?
Currently the idea is to reserve the four digit ZIDs for languages.
I would like to start with the languages that are user interface languages
for MediaWiki (but there's enough space to extend this considerably later).
But how to turn them into numbers?
The best way I can come up with is to take the language codes, sort them
alphabetically, and take that for the first set, and then, when more come
in, add them chronologically. Let's have that as the strawman proposal, but
maybe someone can come up with a smarter idea?
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