- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:29:48 +0900
- To: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>, Stephen Deach <sdeach@adobe.com>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, ltru@ietf.org
Exactly. Codes should be converted at the boundaries to systems that can't handle anything else that three-letter codes. It has to be done one way, so it can as well be done both ways. Regards, Martin. At 00:07 06/09/23, Misha Wolf wrote: > >That would be seriously broken. It would encourage >people to violate BCP 47. > >Misha > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Stephen Deach [mailto:sdeach@adobe.com] >Sent: 22 September 2006 16:05 >To: Misha Wolf; Richard Ishida >Cc: www-international@w3.org >Subject: RE: Updated article: Two-letter or three-letter language codes > >I would strongly recomment taht all processing applications support both >2 >& 3 letter ISO codes. It was the only way to get some countries and some > >applications (especially in business databases) simply always use the 3 >letter coded. > > >This email was sent to you by Reuters, the global news and information company. >To find out more about Reuters visit www.about.reuters.com > >Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, >except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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