Re: text, lowercase language tags

> As far as I know, there we no extensive discussions on this point, so
> thanks for starting one.
>
> I would actually prefer option 1. Normalizing the value space to
> lowercase makes sense from the OWL point of view (we clearly don't
> want "abc"@en and "abc"@EN to be distinct objects that might cause a
> violation of some cardinality constraint).

Sounds good.

> I also see now problem to
> having mixed-case lexical forms.

I'm not sure what you mean here, sorry.

> In fact, the older version of the document followed this approach. I
> changed this recently, however, in desire to be compatible with
> RDF. After all, we got some potentially show-stopping comments by RDF
> people, so I thought to preempt these this time around.
> 
> How shall we go about resolving this? Would it be possible to check
> with the RDF people whether they'd be OK with option 1?

I don't have any idea who might specifically care about this.  Andy
Seaborn seemed to be the RDF main commenter, but I don't see any mention
of this issue.  I lean towards just getting what reviews we get on the
next public draft, but I wouldn't mind pinging Andy before hand (or
anyone else who seems like they might have particular interest).

    -- Sandro

Received on Monday, 6 April 2009 18:46:22 UTC