- From: Tex Texin <tex@XenCraft.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:39:40 -0500
- To: aphillips@webmethods.com
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, 'GEO' <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
ok, I guess I misunderstood what "this" referenced. As Emily Litella says: "never mind" ;-) tex "Addison Phillips [wM]" wrote: > > I thought what I was favoring was the same thing you are favoring ;-). > > > > > > 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.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex at XenCraft.com Xen Master XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com Making e-Business Work Around the World -------------------------------------------------------------
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