thanks George, those are helpful criteria. I think the proposed format listing regions and the languages used in each region, would only have tags with distinct conventions, such as you and others suggest. tex Georg Schweizer wrote: > > Mark Davis wrote: > > > You keep expressing this in a counterproductive way. The language tag > > 'de-AT' is reasonably defined: German as used in Austria. > > Political borders don’t always run along language variations. > A language-region tag is generally understood as the current official > standard of the language in the corresponding country. > > The tag "de-AT" clearly does not mean *any* German as used in Austria, > it refers to Austrian Standard German. > > For example, in the context of a spell checking software you may expect > the following: > - current official Austrian orthography ("neue amtliche > Rechtschreibung"), > - as currently taught in Austrian schools, > - as defined in the Austrian Dictionary ("Österreichisches Wörterbuch"), > - common practice in Austrian newspapers, > - etc. > > In my opinion the list should include only tags for which such distinct > conventions exist (which is apparently not the case for de-LI). > > Georg -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex@XenCraft.com Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -------------------------------------------------------------Received on Tuesday, 21 December 2004 04:07:57 GMT
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