- From: aphillips via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:57:46 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
Regarding "locale-dependent" versus "language-dependent", the difference is that there is no difference? Or rather: locale-dependent operations are those that take a locale in order to set the language- or culturally-dependent behavior. In every programming language I can think of, case folding and case mapping take a locale (explicitly or implicitly from the environment) to control their behavior. Unicode itself has begun delegating tailorings to CLDR. The problem is that the above is contradictory to the usage in the current draft, where I mention locale only a couple of times (and it is in relation to case folding), but not in Section 2.1. This stems from past practice in our W3C specs of speaking of "language" for content where we might otherwise say "locale". (The XML and HTML attribute is called `lang` after all). I will point out that [http://w3c.github.io/ltli/ LTLI] *is* on this working group's list of Things To Do... if only we can get CharMod done ;-). I will evaluate making language-vs.-locale terminology consistently one or the other before closing this issue. -- GitHub Notification of comment by aphillips Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/issues/68#issuecomment-180904273 using your GitHub account
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