- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:25:41 +0900
- To: Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com>
- CC: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
I fully agree with Mark's proposed changes, but have one additional concern. On 2009/12/11 0:50, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: > Looks good, except for the following. > > in practice convention often associates the macrolanguage subtag with the > predominant language among the encompassed subtags - in this case, cmn > (Mandarin > Chinese). > => > in practice, convention overwhelmingly associates the macrolanguage subtag > with the predominant language among the encompassed subtags - in this case, > cmn (Mandarin Chinese). > > it may sometimes be better to use the macrolanguage subtag for the > predominant language, > => > it is generally better to use the macrolanguage subtag for the predominant > language, > > Similarly, it may sometimes be better for backwards compatibility if, when > dealing with the predominant language in the set, > => > Similarly, it is generally better for backwards compatibility if, when > dealing with the predominant language in the set, "if, when", even in context (which is partially missing here), is just too complicated. Please simplify. Regards, Martin. > Mark > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 23:23, Richard Ishida<ishida@w3.org> wrote: > >> During our telecon last night people were happy with the changes >> highlighted using change markup in >> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/temp.php >> >> The changes were made in an attempt to make it easier to understand >> concepts related to macrolanguages, specific language tags, extlangs, and >> predominant languages. >> >> If there are no further objections, I'd like to remove the change marks and >> update the article asap. Please let me know quickly if you have comments. >> >> Thanks, >> RI >> >> >> ============ >> Richard Ishida >> Internationalization Lead >> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) >> >> http://www.w3.org/International/ >> http://rishida.net/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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