Re: [ACTION 107] Locale Filter

Thanks, Shaun, that would work for me, just done.

Felix

2012/8/1 Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org>

> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 11:11 +0200, Yves Savourel wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why not just dispense with all the extra language altogether?
> As you point out, "*" is a valid basic language range, so we
> don't need to explicitly allow it. And I don't really see any
> reason to forbid "fr,*,en". It's logically equivalent to just
> "*" and shouldn't cause any implementation burden. In fact,
> forbidding it probably just means implementations have to add
> a check to throw an unnecessary error.
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Felix Sasaki
DFKI / W3C Fellow