Re: renewal of the W3C Translation pages

On Friday, May 9, 2003, 3:52:37 PM, jaccoud wrote:



jpcb> You have two options: you can use only one Pottuguese entry (pt) and put
jpcb> all documents there, or create differente entries for each localization. Up
jpcb> to this date, just pt-PT and pt-BR are there, but there are other
jpcb> Portuguese parliant countries.

Since the language tags are hierarchical, a query on "pt" should
return those tagged as 'pt' or 'pt-BR' or 'pt-PT' or indeed
'pt-anything-anything-anything' whereas a query on 'pt-BR' (or pt-br
or any other case mixture) should return only Brazilian Portugese
documents.

Same for all languages of course.

jpcb> This may not apply to all languages that can be localized --
jpcb> some are too diferent, like zh-hk and zh-cn.

But equally, if someone asks for 'zh' the they should get all chinese
documents. As you point out, for some languages they are less likely
to do that.

jpcb> Curiously, I see no distinction between en-EN and en-GB,

(There is no en-EN because EN is not a country code. I assume you
meant that en-US and en-GB and en are not distinguished).

jpcb> There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who
jpcb> understand binary and those who don't.

;-)



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 Chris                            mailto:chris@w3.org