- From: <75819671@it.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:39:02 +0200
- To: Ryan Fischer <fischer@email.unc.edu>
- cc: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no>, www-html@w3.org
Right. That's the difference between abbreviations and acronyms. I don't see why the W3C doesn't understand that. It's the acronyms that have idiosyncratic pronounciations. Abbreviations don't. That's why they're only considered abbreviations and not acronyms. Simple. Because any distinction founded on prounance should take in consideration that the same term can be prounanced differently in different languages. And since ABBRV is a tag of a programming language, you cannot define it based on the assumption that you speak a specific language, especially now that by XML I can create tags in every language supported by Unicode. W3C is starting to understand International issues that usually in the past have been ignored. I was really "amused" reading in the XML Schema specs that authors were surprised that in the ISO standards for dates the MM/DD/YYYY format was not allowed ;-) We in the "rest of the world" had to fight every day for years with programs thinking only in terms of inches, american keyboards, non-international phone number formats, and so forth in applications. Now it is time to think "international" ;-))) Dr. Dario de Judicibus - IBM Global Services ICM EMEA South Region Deployment Support Leader EMEA Knowledge Management Consulting Group Tel: +39-06-596-62531 --- Fax: +39-06-596-65432 WORK (e-mail) 75819671@it.ibm.com (pages) http://w3.smns.italy.ibm.com/ HOME (e-mail) ddj@mclink.it (pages) http://www.geocities.com/~dejudicibus/ (icq) 25257587 PHOTO GALLERY http://www.geocities.com/~dejudicibus/gallery/
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