Re: [i18n review comment] Locale references to BCP47 and CLDR #189

Dear Ishida,

We made an update on the DWBP document [1] to reflect your comment.
Specifically, we updated the "Possible Approach to Implementation" of BP3
to recommend the use of BCP47 and CLDR.

However, we are not sure if Example 3 is consistent with your
recommendation. Could you please check if it is ok?

Thanks!
DWBP editors

[1]
https://github.com/w3c/dwbp/commit/889f7a688145cf441a16e9faaa1936d466117c38

2016-07-22 9:36 GMT-03:00 <ishida@w3.org>:

> [raised by aphillips]
>
>
> Best Practice 3 includes as an example the use of `dct:language` to
> indicate locale and refers loosely to the need to indicate the language and
> locale of data values. The standards that embody locale and language
> identification on the Web (and on the Internet more generally) are IETF BCP
> 47 [RFC5646/RFC4647](https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47) and [CLDR](
> http://cldr.unicode.org).
>
> The I18N WG recognizes that these standards do not have a linked data
> representation currently, but the current representations given as examples
> in this document are incomplete and have a variety of limitations or
> problems. This is recognized, for example, by the fact that Dublin Core's
> language element was defined to reference RFC3066, which was the current
> BCP47 when that standard was published. However, BCP 47 has been updated
> since and the current formulation, while fully compatible with RFC3066, is
> the preferred reference.
>
> The WG feels that BP3 should include a reference or recommendation to
> consistently use BCP47 as the standard for language and locale
> identification and, informatively, to CLDR as the source for both
> representing specific localized formats and as a reference for specific
> locale data values.
>
> Please note that this is in addition to the need to recommend
> locale-neutral representations[
> https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/187] instead).
>
>
>


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Centro de Informática
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