Subject: RE: [Ltru] [psg.com #1067] Last call: clarification between languagetags and locales

From: "Addison Phillips" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:36:14 -0700

+1

Addison P. Phillips
Globalization Architect, Quest Software
Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On
> Behalf Of Randy Presuhn
> Sent: 2005?7?16? 22:15
> To: LTRU Working Group
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] [psg.com #1067] Last call: clarification between
> languagetags and locales
> 
> Hi -
> 
> > From: "Mark Davis" <[email-masked]>
> > To: "Randy Presuhn" <[email-masked]>; "LTRU Working Group"
> <[email-masked]>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 5:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Ltru] [psg.com #1067] Last call: clarification between
> languagetags and locales
> >
> 
> > I disagree with the proposal. I can understand your reasoning, but the
> > proposed paragraph doesn't quite work. We are better off just keeping
> the
> > text as it is, rather than open up a -- I suspect -- long discussion
> about
> > locales. Part of the problem is that 'locale IDs' are not a single
> concept;
> > there is very broad variance in what they mean and how they are used.
> ...
> 
> As a compromise, then, if we don't explain that locales should not be
> confused with language tags, could we at least delete the following
> sentence from
> section 3.6 of the registry i-d?  "For example, they might be used to
> define
> locale identifiers, which are generally based on language."  This example
> confuses
> rather than enlightens, leading the tiro to invert the relationship
> between
> locale and language, leading to the need to explain how locale
> identification
> and language tagging should not be confused.  For me, at least, removing
> that
> sentence would be an acceptable resolution of this item.
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> 
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