Re: internationalization issues

Hmm... I'd be far more inclined just to keep the existing language map
mechanism.

It's unfortunate that JSON-LD does not provide an easier way of
establishing the document's default language without reliance on the
@context

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Ben <ben@thatmustbe.me> wrote:
> The most pertinent piece is the Language section.
> Based on that I would say that the <property>Map, etc is the wrong way to go.
> There is actually nothing that says about giving multiple languages at
> the same time to any piece of data, just that you label and can
> request certain languages.
>
> for example something like this..
> {
>     ...
>   "@lang": "en",
>   displayName: {
>       "@lang": "jp",
>        "text": "nihongo de posuto"
>    }
>    "content": "I made the title in japanese!"
>    ....
> }
> It would also effect the API in that there should be an option to
> submit a preference of language,
> though there really is no requirement to actually respond in the
> preferred language.
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote:
>> There's finally a first draft of W3C expertise on how to design technologies
>> which are suitably international
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/International/techniques/developing-specs-dynamic
>>
>> It would be splendid for someone to go through this thinking of AS2.
>>
>>     -- Sandro
>>
>

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