Re: i18n-ISSUE-214: Improper use of languageCode

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.

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Martin J. Dürst
Department of Intelligent Information Technology
Collegue of Science and Engineering
Aoyama Gakuin University
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