- From: Tex Texin <tex@XenCraft.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:21:32 -0500
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: aphillips@webmethods.com, 'GEO' <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
> > Note that this topic is VERY controversial (in certain > > circles). es-americas was rejected by the RFC3066 language > > tag reviewer. I read this as taking a position on that > > argument (one that I favor, but one that someone could object too). Guess who! ;-) Why do you favor it? It seems very reasonable to me, if you have defined words that are acceptable in the Americas and not perhaps in Europe, to have a label to distinguish it from other versions (such as an es-mx if it exists) and not have it confused with an es, for which it may not be appropriate. From a w3c perspective, it would be nice for a user to specify to their UA that they would like to accept language such as es-americas, without having to list every latin american country and give it greater priority than es, or es-es, etc. Perhaps we should ask on the ig list, if there are latin-american users that have an opinion. (Just to collect data, not to argue the point.)
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