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Some films return a spoken language of cn, which is not a valid ISO 639-1
geplaatst door AdiSTAFFMOD op 8 oktober 2013 om 12:04 AM
I get the impression some people add CN thinking it means Chinese, when they actually mean ZH. Any plans on doing a global replace? Or just leaving it as is?
Reactie van Travis Bell
op 8 oktober 2013 om 12:31 AM
Hi Adi,
CN is Cantonese, while ZH is Mandarin. There probably won't ever be a global replace but if some are mis tagged, we can only rely on the community to fix them.
Reactie van Adi
op 8 oktober 2013 om 9:31 AM
So it is IS0 639-1 and then some extra? As CN doesn't exists in 639-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes. (Does highlight the fact that 639 was meant for written languages and even then is a bit out dated. Doesn't distinguish between simplified and traditional Chinese. I think the Chinese got screwed on 639-1 :)
Reactie van Travis Bell
op 8 oktober 2013 om 9:58 AM
Haha, they totally did.
With regards to ISO-639 in general, I agree. Choosing it is a 5 year old decision now though and migrating away from it would affect every single API user. It's probably not going to change any time soon.
Reactie van Adi
op 8 oktober 2013 om 10:04 AM
To be honest, other than rolling your own, your options aren't great. Even when you get down to zh-cn and zh-hk it isn't great.