- From: Martin J Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:25:31 +0100 (MET)
- To: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, mtbryan@sgml.u-net.com, rosenne@NetVision.net.il, J.Larmouth@iti.salford.ac.uk
Keld Simonsen wrote: >We discussed the architecture of character handling, i18n etc >in the IAB, and noticed that sorting is not only dependent on >language, but on the users preferences, where language and culture >and country is prominent ingredients. So we said that this layer >in our model should be 'locale' oriented in the sense of C and >POSIX locales, where we also would see it implemented in many >cases. So I would rather recommend that we do not mix language >and the locale, but that we introduce a locale facility in HTTP. Well, language tags already allow to specify more 'locale'-oriented stuff. You could for example say fr-ch or fr-ca. Of course, this may not be perfect, and you may have other reasons for disentangling language and locale. But I think that if possible, locale aspects should be handled locally, i.e. the server should send a list, with the indication that it should be sorted. We tried to go into such a direction when we proposed markup for dates and mesures in the first i18n HTML draft; that was premature at that time. Also, it should be considered that language and locale interact in various ways. I could immagine that even to a Danish viewer, having Danish sorting sequence inside a German text might not look nice. Regards, Martin.
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