RE: New web app: Searching for language subtags

Hi all,

--- Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com> wrote:

 >
 > Hi Richard,
 >
 > Having spent a few minutes playing with this, it
 > seems to
 > be both useful and fun.

+1

 >
 > My one concern is that people who haven't been
 > initiated
 > into the arcane mysteries of BCP 47, might
 > misunderstand
 > the meaning of a heading like "redundant" in
 > response to
 > a search for "Chinese". 

"people who haven't been initiated into the arcane
mysteries of BCP 47", might even not understand what
'redundant', 'Grandfathered' and other 'variant' mean
or what they are for.

A small definition of the key vocabulary would be welcome.

One can try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCP_47, but it doesn't give any 
explanation, and just refers to
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/Overview.en.php 
(which defines what variant means, but not all the other related 
vocabulary)
and http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry (which is a 
list of language subtags.)

Najib


 > It needs to be made clear
 > to
 > people that this is a tool for examining the
 > registry,
 > *NOT* a tool for finding appropriate language tags.
 > If
 > it is meant to be used for the latter purpose, then
 > some
 > changes are very much needed :-)
 >
 > Regards,
 > Misha
 > 
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: www-international-request@w3.org
 > [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf
 > Of Richard Ishida
 > Sent: 01 April 2007 14:59
 > To: 'WWW International'
 > Subject: New web app: Searching for language subtags
 >
 >
 > You may find this of interest.  It's purely a
 > personal project.
 >
 > http://people.w3.org/rishida/utils/subtags/
 >
 >
 > http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/?p=90 says:
 >
 > This tool allows you to search for tags that have,
 > say, 'french' in
 > their description (there are currently 11), or to
 > find out what that
 > mysterious 'ch' tag stands for (there are 2
 > possibilities). Or you can
 > simply list all current language tags, or script
 > tags, or variants, etc.
 >
 > For months I've been wanting to write a small,
 > Web-based tool for
 > finding things in the subtag registry without having
 > to work on the (for
 > many people, intimidating) raw text file on the IANA
 > site.
 >
 > Tom Gruner created an initial tool for pretty
 > printing the IANA list,
 > which handled enough of the basics to allow me to
 > use the little time I
 > have these days to add the search functionality on
 > top.
 >
 > If you have JavaScript running, you are shown just
 > the tags and
 > descriptions initially, but by clicking on those you
 > can reveal all
 > additional information in the registry for a given
 > tag. I also highlight
 > tags that are deprecated, so you can see that
 > straight away.
 >
 > (PS: Some final tweaks to the code will come when I
 > have a spare moment
 > for things like making the expanding list more
 > accessible, etc.)
 >
 > RI
 >
 >
 > ============
 > Richard Ishida
 > Internationalization Lead
 > W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
 > 
 > http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
 > http://www.w3.org/International/
 > http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/
 > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/
 > 
 >
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Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco)
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