Re: Comment on LTLI WD

Houston, we have convergence... (at least for the two of us!)

Mark

Addison Phillips wrote:
> Comments follow...
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> Addison
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> Addison Phillips
> Internationalization Architect - Yahoo! Inc.
>
> Internationalization is an architecture.
> It is not a feature. 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Davis [mailto:mark.davis@icu-project.org]
>> Sent: 2006年5月2日 13:41
>> To: Addison Phillips
>> Cc: 'Felix Sasaki'; www-i18n-comments@w3.org; public-i18n-core@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: Comment on LTLI WD
>>
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>>> For the last sentence, I would suggest instead:
>>> --
>>> Locale identifiers usually share certain core features related to
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>> natural language and country/region. This specification defines locale
>> identifiers which specific locale implementations can map to their
>> proprietary features in order to create functional, interoperable
>> applications.
>>     
>> ok, except "which" => "that"
>>     
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> Yes.
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>> ok with that, except that I would stress that this is one of the key
>> differences. So
>>  >
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>> One difference between language tags and locale identifiers
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>> =>
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>> A major difference between language tags and locale identifiers
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> +1
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>>> --
>>> This document defines locale identifiers for use in Web technologies.
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>> Historically, natural language identifiers [RFC 3066bis] have been used to
>> infer locales, and, in the absence of a standard for locale interchange,
>> were often used by software as the source for locale identification.
>>     
>> I had actually suggested that that paragraph just be removed. I don't
>> like the "used to infer" which actually they have just been used *as
>> locale identifiers*. Same with "source". So my suggestion:
>>
>> This document defines locale identifiers for use in Web technologies.
>> Historically, natural language identifiers [RFC 3066bis] have often been
>> used as locale identifiers (with some syntactic changes).
>>
>>     
> +1, although this would violate my personal use of jargon (where language tags are never locale identifiers, they are used as surrogates thereof). Perhaps:
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> Historically, natural language identifiers [RFC 3066bis] have been used as locale identifiers by some programming languages or operating environments, which is natural since locale identifiers usually share certain core features related to
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>> natural language and country/region. This specification defines locale
>> identifiers which specific locale implementations can map to their
>> proprietary features in order to create functional, interoperable
>> applications.
>>     
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> You'll note that I've blended another of my previous suggested paragraphs with this one and it actually makes sense :-).
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Received on Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:16:28 UTC