RE: text, lowercase language tags

I'm sorry about the typo: I personally see *no* problem with mixed-case lexical
forms.

Pinging Andy seems a good idea: if he doesn't mind, I'll be happy to change the
definitions. Hence, please go ahead and do that.

Regards,

	Boris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-rdf-text-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rdf-text-request@w3.org]
> On Behalf Of Sandro Hawke
> Sent: 06 April 2009 19:46
> To: Boris Motik
> Cc: public-rdf-text@w3.org
> Subject: Re: text, lowercase language tags
> 
> 
> > As far as I know, there we no extensive discussions on this point, so
> > thanks for starting one.
> >
> > I would actually prefer option 1. Normalizing the value space to
> > lowercase makes sense from the OWL point of view (we clearly don't
> > want "abc"@en and "abc"@EN to be distinct objects that might cause a
> > violation of some cardinality constraint).
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> > I also see now problem to
> > having mixed-case lexical forms.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here, sorry.
> 
> > In fact, the older version of the document followed this approach. I
> > changed this recently, however, in desire to be compatible with
> > RDF. After all, we got some potentially show-stopping comments by RDF
> > people, so I thought to preempt these this time around.
> >
> > How shall we go about resolving this? Would it be possible to check
> > with the RDF people whether they'd be OK with option 1?
> 
> I don't have any idea who might specifically care about this.  Andy
> Seaborn seemed to be the RDF main commenter, but I don't see any mention
> of this issue.  I lean towards just getting what reviews we get on the
> next public draft, but I wouldn't mind pinging Andy before hand (or
> anyone else who seems like they might have particular interest).
> 
>     -- Sandro

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