On 2016/09/02 01:58, Rouslan Solomakhin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:54 AM, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote: > >> Some postal services, like Japan, have separate formats for national and >> international addressing, the former being big-endian and the latter >> little-endian >> > > That's where the language code comes into play. Language codes like "ja-JP" > uses the national addressing format in Japan: big endian. Language codes > like "en" or "ja-Latn" use international addressing format in Japan: little > endian. This makes sense at first sight, but is quite ad-hoc. It's totally unclear what "language code" other conventions would use. Also, "ja-Latn" says "Japanese language, written with Latin script", but what you really want to identify is "Japanese (country!) format, when using Latin script". So you would need a country and a script, but not a language. That's not exactly what language codes provide. Regards, Martin. -- Martin J. Dürst Department of Intelligent Information Technology Collegue of Science and Engineering Aoyama Gakuin University Fuchinobe 5-1-10, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara 252-5258 JapanReceived on Friday, 2 September 2016 13:36:33 UTC
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