- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:58:39 -0500
- To: Mark Davis <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, ietf-languages@alvestrand.no
Mark Davis scripsit:
> And the broader point is that whenever you are saying that xx-YY and xx-ZZ
> have different denotations, you *are* saying that xx differs by country. In
> that case you can't just say that xx-WW is "not recommended", you have to
> say *which* country variant it is the same as.
Not necessarily, especially if you don't know. Claiming that de-AT, de-DE, and
de-CH are recommended doesn't disrecommend other possibilities; in particular,
there is a fair amount of de-US material out there, especially old newspapers,
but it probably wouldn't make sense to recommend de-US for general use today.
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Humpty Dump Dublin squeaks through his norse
Humpty Dump Dublin hath a horrible vorse
But for all his kinks English / And his irismanx brogues
Humpty Dump Dublin's grandada of all rogues. --Cousin James
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