Subject: RE: [Ltru] Matching draft: 2.4 Meaning of language tags...

From: "Addison Phillips" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:44:58 -0800

The use of various words in that section is problematic for the reasons Martin cites: language tags do not define a language. Marion's suggestion is, in my opinion, the right one: language tags identify and I will make this change as part of the proposed juggling of text from this weekend's email.

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
Globalization Architect, Quest Software

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On Behalf Of
> Marion Gunn
> Sent: 2005年11月14日 2:51
> Cc: LTRU Working Group
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] Matching draft: 2.4 Meaning of language tags...
> 
> I understand that the purpose of a language tag is to 'identify' a
> language, that the word 'langtag' is  only short for language
> identifier. Using words such as 'defines' or 'indicates' could be
> confusing. What is the advantage in avoiding the words 'identify' or
> 'identifier"?
> mg
> 
> Scríobh Martin Duerst:
> > ...
> > The first paragraph says that a language tag 'defines'
> > a language; we successfully elimitated this usage; if
> > we still need this paragraph, please use 'indicate' or
> > whatever...
> 
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