changeset 22247:69becfa63e68

clarify that language must be a 3 letter code dont clarify the country code 2 vs. 3 issue as there where few comments about that ...
author michael
date Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:21:19 +0000
parents cd659496eafd
children fb03fcc0817e
files DOCS/tech/nut.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/DOCS/tech/nut.txt	Sun Feb 18 20:19:47 2007 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/tech/nut.txt	Sun Feb 18 20:21:19 2007 +0000
@@ -844,10 +844,11 @@
         Note: do not forget the timezone
     "Keywords"
     "Language"
-        ISO 639 and ISO 3166 for language/country code
-        something like "eng" (US English), can be 0 if unknown
-        and "multi" if several languages
-        see http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html
+        An ISO 639-2 (three-letter) language code, optionally followed by an
+        ISO 3166-1 country code that is separated from the language
+        code by a hyphen.  All codes defined in ISO 639-2 are allowed,
+        including "und" (Undetermined), "mul" (Multiple languages)
+        see http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/
         and http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html
         the language code
         a demuxer MUST ignore unknown language and country codes instead of