- From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 16:50:58 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM
I don't like the default language text. When this was discussed at the ACAP WG meeting in Munich (after you left, unfortunately), the language in the ACAP spec reflected something similar to your policy. There was a strong consensus to change it to simply default to "en" (which may be different from "en-us" or "en-uk"). People were not comfortable with a one-way transition away from the default setting for error messages. So the default language should be "en", or there should be a registered language tag (e.g., "default") with a precise definition so that the error message language can be changed back to the default setting if desired. I personally think having a default language which is a special dialect of English is unnecessary complexity, so I prefer the "en" solution. I can't realisticly see an implementor making the default language different from "en" in a product (although I can see "en-us" and "en-uk" variants). I thought I had mentioned this before, but things slip my mind every now and then. - Chris --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
Received on Sunday, 12 October 1997 18:05:15 UTC