Hi, my comments are below; I still sort of think that there may need to be some clarification about mis and und.
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>Kent Karlsson wrote:
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> > da.xml: <language type="und">Sproget kan ikke bestemmes</language>
> > de.xml: <language type="und">Sprache nicht ermittelt</language>
> > it.xml: <language type="und">lingua imprecisata</language>
> > sv.xml: <language type="und">obestamt sprak</language>
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>For the German version I'd say that's "language not identified".
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> > Perhaps those ones should be retranslated not to refer to language,
> > **if** "und" may apply also to "maybe not in any language".
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>I don't understand *_why_* anything about it should be
changed.
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>If the process to identify / determine a language failed so far,
>the final outcome can be still "no language at all", i.e. "zxx".
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>And that's precisely what Richard needs for those cases where an
>empty string is (still) syntactically invalid, as in XHTML 1.0.
(I personally still want a clearer meaning for und; the meaning of zxx is clear to me)
Also I have questions about mis (miscellaneous) (I agree with John's definition of miscellanous; that's the English definition; but there is nothing in the registry to indicate that mis refers to any collection of languages--it's just a three-letter subtag--so I have to say that what I get for mis is exactly what Mark gets, maybe some language content; if so and if zxx means no known language content, then und may be redundant (caution: this is an outside opinion from someone with limited programming skills).
Here's the registration for mis:
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Type: language
Subtag: mis
Description: Miscellaneous languages
Added: 2005-10-16
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Mark Davis mark.davis@icu-project.org
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> I think I agree with you in spirit, but not in precise details. The tag "und" means > "undetermined", so when I encounter it I don't know whether the content contains > one language, many languages, or no language. +1 that is what I get from this, too, exactly. > The tag "zxx" would mean that > there is no language content, "mis" would mean that there is at least some language > content, and "mul" would mean that there is language content, with more than one > language. |
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> I'm okay with all of this except "mis". "mis" is a collection code, as I explained, and means "languages that
> don't belong to any other collection." It is not the universal collection.
--C. E. Whitehead