Re: 8 characters

Thanks.  We'll consider this.

-- dan

On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Phillips, Addison wrote:

> Hello Dan,
>
> There is no chance that the eight character limit can be extended  
> for reasons of compatibility. Using “-“ to continue a tag might have  
> some unintended side-effects. Notably, matching and truncation of  
> language tags assumes that subtags can be removed at the hyphen mark.
>
> If you can’t stay within an eight character limit, you might  
> consider having a “short name” field for use in language tags (as an  
> alias). The subtags don’t have to be perfectly mnemonic.
>
> Addison
>
> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect -- Lab126
>
> Internationalization is not a feature.
> It is an architecture.
>
> From: public-i18n-core-request@w3.org [mailto:public-i18n-core-request@w3.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Dan Burnett
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:13 AM
> To: public-i18n-core@w3.org; Matt Womer; kazuyuki@w3.org
> Cc: W3C Voice Browser Working Group
> Subject: Fwd: 8 characters
>
> Forwarding to entire I18N core group.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> From: Dan Burnett <dburnett@voxeo.com>
> Date: January 13, 2010 1:24:10 PM EST
> To: Addison Phillips <addison@amazon.com>
> Subject: 8 characters
>
> Addison,
>
> After I left the call it occurred to me that our first entry that we  
> want to create, "pinyin2001", would not meet your 8-character  
> restriction.
>
> Is there any possibility for either a) increasing that character  
> limit, or b) allowing for us to use '-' to continue our tags?
>
> I expect that the character length limit, as in MSDOS, will be the  
> biggest sticking point.
>
> -- dan
>
>