- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:49:44 -0400
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Richard Ishida scripsit: > The GEO Working Group has published the article: > > Understanding the New Language Tags > http://www.w3.org/International/articles/bcp47/ > By Addison Phillips, Yahoo! While this article is certainly correct as to facts (it should be), I fear that it will miss most of the target audience. Very few people are familiar with even what RFC 1766 provides, much less RFC 3066; I saw a published database schema recently -- I forget just where, or I'd have sent a correction -- that allocated a CHAR(5) field for language tags! Someone (sorry, I'm not volunteering -- I'm too close to the problem) needs to write an article thoroughly clearing away the profound ignorance and misunderstanding that surrounds the whole subject if the capabilities of RFC 3066bis are to be truly useful. -- Where the wombat has walked, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> it will inevitably walk again. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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