Re: sec 4.11

What do you mean "the Newman draft seems to be stuck" ?

Addison Phillips [wM] wrote:

> This whole conversation is fascinating, piquant, rich, vibrant.... and way
> off topic from the material that should be going into our note about Web
> services. It would make a wonderful FAQ or series thereof for GEO. And it
> does point out some areas that maybe the I18N WG should consider for our new
> charter, chiefly: collation identifiers, now that the Newman draft seems to
> be stuck. We have previously agreed that USWD is not an internationalization
> primer. Let's demonstrate that collation problems exist for Web services and
> avoid unnecessary detail (Tex will note that I removed about half of his
> example material, not because I didn't agree with it, but rather because it
> went on too long).
> 
> We can reference LDML and CLDR where appropriate. But for now I'd prefer to
> see LESS detail.
> 
> My two cents.
> 
> Addison
> 
> Addison P. Phillips Director, Globalization Architecture webMethods |
> Delivering Global Business Visibility http://www.webMethods.com Chair, W3C
> Internationalization (I18N) Working Group Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services
> Task Force http://www.w3.org/International
> 
> Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature.
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Tex Texin [mailto:tex@xencraft.com] Sent:
>> 2004年5月11日 20:26 To: Mark Davis Cc: Addison Phillips [wM]; Web Services 
>> Subject: Re: sec 4.11
>> 
>> 
>> Mark,
>> 
>> I thought about it when I was drafting the note and decided it was too
>> early in LDML's life. Be glad to learn otherwise.
>> 
>> This doc is just describing scenarios and highlighting potential 
>> internationalization concerns. It doesn't need to be comprehensive with
>> respect to all the details. Later on, I presume, we will write the how-to 
>> guides and can point at LDML as a solution.
>> 
>> But that's just my initial cut at it. Maybe Addison or others will see it 
>> differently.
>> 
>> tex
>> 
>> Mark Davis wrote:
>> 
>>> BTW, you might also reference LDML collation settings: 
>>> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Setting_Options
>>> 
>>> Mark
> 
> 

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