Re: [ACTION 107] Locale Filter

Thanks, Yves, that's much clearer. I changed that at

http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/drafts/its20/its20.html#LocaleFilter

Best,

Felix

2012/8/1 Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>

> Thanks Felix,
>
> I'm probably picky, but 'The list of language ranges is a comma-separated
> list of basic language ranges, or the specific wildcard language range "*".
> The list MUST NOT contain the wildcard "*" and other languages ranges.'
> Seems still to have room for misinterpretation.
>
> Maybe:
>
> 'The list of language ranges is a comma-separated list of basic language
> ranges. When used, the specific wildcard language range "*" MUST be the
> only value in the list.
>
> Cheers,
> -ys
>
>
>
> From: Felix Sasaki [mailto:fsasaki@w3.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:45 AM
> To: Yves Savourel
> Cc: Shaun McCance; public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [ACTION 107] Locale Filter
>
> Good point, Yves, I tried to implement this at
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/drafts/its20/its20.html#LocaleFilter
>
> Best,
>
> Felix
> 2012/8/1 Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>
> Hi Felix, Shaun,
>
> I had implemented the version with 'all/none' and I've now changed it to
> the one without 'none/all': From the implementation viewpoint there is no
> measurable difference in complexity.
>
> >From a user viewpoint now we always have two attributes, so it is a bit
> more verbose to express all/none, but I suppose it is a bit more clean too.
>
> One detail:
>
> The text says 'The list of language ranges is a comma-separated list of
> basic language ranges, or the wildcard "*"'
>
> But BCP47 defines the 'basic language range' in a way that includes "*":
> 'A "basic language range" has the same syntax as an [RFC3066] language tag
> or is the single character "*".'
>
> So a list of basic language ranges could be localeFilterList="fr,*,de".
>
> If we want to exclude "*" from multi-values lists, we should specify
> something like:
>
> 'The list of language ranges is a comma-separated list of one or more
> language tags as defined in RFC3066 or a lone wildcard "*"' (or something
> of that effect).
>
> Cheers,
> -ys
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Felix Sasaki
> DFKI / W3C Fellow
>
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