- From: Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:55:26 +0000
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: public-rdf-comments@w3.org
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 19:00:47 +0000, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de> wrote:
> Hi Stian,
>
> An answer cannot be determined with 100% certainty from the text.
>
> What is clear:
>
> - "Hello"@en and "Hello"@EN have the same value
> - One MAY normalise "Hello"@EN to "Hello"@en
> - In RDF 2004, "Hello"@en and "Hello"@EN were clearly equal
>
> RDF 2004 forced the language tag to be lower-cased in the abstract syntax. Implementations of RDF 2004 often did not do that, but retained the case when storing or transforming RDF, while still treating @en and @EN as equal. My recollection is that we wanted to change the language of the spec to make this behaviour legal. Unfortunately it seems the language came out less clear than it should be. I do not think that there was any intention to make @en and @EN not equal.
OK, so "Hello"@en and "Hello"@EN are the same value ("Value Equal"), but they are NOT (in RDF 1.1) "Term Equal"?
That would at least be along the same lines as "1"^^xsd:integer and "01"^^xsd:integer.
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Stian Soiland-Reyes
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