- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:23:15 +0900
- To: Stephen Deach <sdeach@adobe.com>, Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, ltru@ietf.org
At 23:58 06/09/23, Stephen Deach wrote: >I just wanted to make sure this "shortest code" issue was considered carefully. > A lot of people I've talked to about internationalization issues over the years simply had "assumed" that the 3-letter ISO codes superceded the 2-letter ones, or chose to use all 3-letter codes rather than a mix of 2 & 3 because it was easier to make it a fixed-length field. IETF language tags always have been variable-length. >I understand your goal is to eventually make this simpler, by eliminating multiple formats for each subtoken and moving to a single registry/list. This is not a matter of future development. RFC 3066, which sorted out this issue, has been published in January 2001. Mark's data also seems to show that this is quite well respected. >As a general process I always try to accept ill-formed input, but emit corrected output (since you pretty much have to grandfather all past formats). In the case of language tags, this is a very good policy for interfaces between other systems and the Internet protocols and formats that use RFC 4646 language tags. Regards, Martin. >At 2006.09.23-11:29(+0900), Martin Duerst wrote: >>Exactly. Codes should be converted at the boundaries to systems that >>can't handle anything else that three-letter codes. It has to be done >>one way, so it can as well be done both ways. >> >>Regards, Martin. >> >>At 00:07 06/09/23, Misha Wolf wrote: >> > >> >That would be seriously broken. It would encourage >> >people to violate BCP 47. >> > >> >Misha >> > >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Stephen Deach [mailto:sdeach@adobe.com] >> >Sent: 22 September 2006 16:05 >> >To: Misha Wolf; Richard Ishida >> >Cc: www-international@w3.org >> >Subject: RE: Updated article: Two-letter or three-letter language codes >> > >> >I would strongly recomment taht all processing applications support both >> >2 >> >& 3 letter ISO codes. It was the only way to get some countries and some >> > >> >applications (especially in business databases) simply always use the 3 >> >letter coded. >> > >> > >> >This email was sent to you by Reuters, the global news and information company. >> >To find out more about Reuters visit www.about.reuters.com >> > >> >Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, >> >except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd. >> >> >>#-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University >>#-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp > > >---Steve Deach > sdeach@adobe.com #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
Received on Sunday, 24 September 2006 06:04:01 UTC