- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:02:29 +0100
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>
- CC: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
On 3/17/11 1:43 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: > On Mar 17, 2011, at 20:21 , Marcos Caceres wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Phillips, Addison<addison@lab126.com> wrote: >>> I happened to be referring to the Widget spec this morning > > Out of curiosity: in what context? > >>> 1. Section 5.3 (Zip Relative Paths). The ABNF defines "language-range". I think this is not desirable. Language ranges are input to the matching algorithm (i.e. the user's request). You don't really want paths like "locale/de-*-1901". You want concrete paths here and "*" has no business in a path. Ideally you would reference the "Language-Tag" production in BCP 47 (RFC 5646). However, since it is a large production and you don't probably want to directly incorporate it, you could incorporate the "obs-language-tag" production in the same document instead. You should still say that language tags used in paths "must" be valid language tags according to the more formal production. >> >> Valid point. I don't think anyone will complain if we change this. > > +1, it's a bug. > >>> 2. Section 5.3. The same production corresponds to BCP 47 (RFC 4647) "extended-language-range", although it only allows the tags to use lowercase letters. I really feel that mixed case is not that difficult to support and that it will save many developers from inexplicable silent failures. >> >> This is true... however, most engines implemented the case sensitive >> requirement (implementers had concerns about Unicode case >> comparisons)). I think it might be hard to fix this one without >> breaking a bunch of runtimes and maybe content.... need to think about >> it. > > I would very much prefer that we stuck with case-sensitive; I think that developers can handle that trivially. I agree. I would be weird to have some aspects work as case-sensitive and other parts not. I propose this be the rule (which is what we originally intended): lang-tag = primary-subtag *( "-" subtag ) primary-subtag = 1*8low-alpha subtag = 1*8(alphanum) alphanum = low-alpha / DIGIT low-alpha = %x61-7a
Received on Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:03:20 UTC