- From: <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:08:10 +0100
- To: Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org>, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, 董福興 <bobbytung@wanderer.tw>, CJK discussion <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>, Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp>, 劉慶 <ryukeikun@gmail.com>
On 28/07/2016 01:23, Xidorn Quan wrote: > I think zh-yue-HK would fallback to zh-yue automatically given the list, > shouldn't it? > > But if you write zh-yue-CN, hmmm... Don't go there! ;-) If you write zh-yue-CN you are NOT saying anything about the script, you are simply saying that we are talking about yue as used in CN. I think it's a very bad and dangerous idea to start assuming that because people have used zh-CN to mean simplified chinese that all more carefully constructed language tags are equally broken. If one encourages people to think that there is a script association other than the default with zh-yue-CN then the whole model starts to fall apart, and people can no longer create meaningful tags for certain combinations. zh-CN we are stuck with, because of a long legacy dating to pre-BCP47 days, but i think we should stop at that and zh-TW when it comes to assuming that the intended script is a function of the region tag. hth ri
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