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Re: examples of basic filtering vs. extended filtering

From: Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:14:01 -0700
Message-ID: <46A62549.7010807@yahoo-inc.com>
To: "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>
CC: public-i18n-core@w3.org

Hi Eric,

Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> I'd like to make sure I have the following correct:
> 
>        range       tag
> basic("de-DE", "de-Latn-DE") => 0
> extended("de-DE", "de-Latn-DE") => 1
> 
> basic("de-Latn", "de-Latn-DE") => 1
> extended("de-Latn", "de-Latn-DE") => 1
> 
> basic("*", "de-Latn-DE") => 1
> extended("*", "de-Latn-DE") => 1
> 
> basic("*-Latn", "de-Latn-DE") => error
> extended("*-Latn", "de-Latn-DE") => 1

All of the above are correct.

> 
> Also, is there a range, tag pair that will pass basic but fail extended?

No. That's by design.

Addison

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Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.
Received on Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:15:39 GMT

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