[OSM-talk-be] Zones 30 in Belgium

[Wim Crols]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:32 AM, A.Pirard.Papou
<A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>wrote:

>  ...
> Also I think BE needs to be all caps. 'be' stands for the language
> Byelorussian to me (I probably spen. When I look at taginfo I notice that
> DE etc. is also all caps.
>
> Both ISO 3166 (country) and ISO 639 (language) specify case-insensitive
> codes.
> Lowercase is usually used.  Context must always distinguish countries and
> languages.
> As well as Shakespeare's "2 be or not 2 BE" :-)
> Although you could, you do not type talk-BE nor taxonweb.BE (1).
> You may have noticed that most of the DNS names are written in lowercase.
> Unix uses lowercase and uppercase is a Windows' habit being laughed at ;-)
>
>
>  country
>  language
>   Belgium
>  be
>  fr, nl, de
>   Белоруссия
>  by
>  ru, be
>
>  FYI, these poor people have been spread all over by radiation from a
> nuclear reactor in (t)Chernobyl on my 40th birthday.  Бело (biéla) means
> white and Черно (tchirno) means black.
>

RFC 4646 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt) says the following

   Although case distinctions do not carry meaning in language tags,
   consistent formatting and presentation of the tags will aid users.
   The format of the tags and subtags in the registry is RECOMMENDED.
   In this format, all non-initial two-letter subtags are uppercase, all
   non-initial four-letter subtags are titlecase, and all other subtags are
lowercase.

And the country is a non-initial two-letter subtag. So uppercase two letter
country code within a locale/language definition is heavily used in xml
documents.

With kind regards

Wim
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