- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 05:00:47 +0900
- To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Forwarded by the list manager. At 07:00 1999/11/28 -0500, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Michael; > > > Well, with it being forward to at least two aliasea *all* of whose questions over the last several > > months have been on localization, I'll stand by the statement that its a shortcoming of this > > particular list. :-) > > > > Obviously I do not think its a shortcoming of country codes, since in the next paragraph I point out > > a source that includes this info that *is* useful for localization purposes. > > > > AFAIK there is no info in the website that is not in the link I provided, and there is MUCH info > > provided in the one I gave that is not on this "official" web site. > > It is a known error of RFC1766 of IETF language tag that it unnecessarily > relate language and ISO 3166. > > Through the discussion on IETF language tag, I repeatedly pointed it out > that IETF language tag should have nothing to do with ISO 3166. But, > Harald insisted to keep his original proposal. > > The obvious solution is to correct RFC1766. > > Masataka Ohta > > > #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
Received on Sunday, 28 November 1999 16:02:47 UTC