[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commit: r7155 - in trunk/mythtv/libs by danielk

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 10:57 -0300, Marcelo Toledo wrote:
> Daniel Kristjansson <danielk at cuymedia.net> writes:
> > It's used by GetLanguageList(). If no languages have been specified
> I imagine that these functions are related to the language that we'll
> use to show translated text (I might be wrong though). Even if it's not
> it, but are related to identifying a language, this will not work for
> everyone.
These are currently used to select audio & subtitle streams and select
the Program Guide data to save to the DB with experimental EIT parsing.

> I think we shouldn't use iso639 because of this:
> "But the two-character codes of ISO 639 are neither sufficiently
> mnemonic nor complete for the world's languages: whereas ISO 639
We use iso639.{h,cpp} to support three character language id's. These
are what is used by ATSC, DVB and by other ISO standards for language
identification.

Three character iso639 supports Klingon. :)

-- Daniel