- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:04:23 -0400
- To: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
- Cc: Stephen Deach <sdeach@adobe.com>, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14@comhem.se>, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>, www-international@w3.org, CLDR list <cldr@unicode.org>
Mark Davis scripsit: > I think I agree with you in spirit, but not in precise details. The > tag "und" means "undetermined", so when I encounter it I don't know > whether the content contains one language, many languages, or no > language. The tag "zxx" would mean that there is no language content, > "mis" would mean that there is at least some language content, and "mul" > would mean that there is language content, with more than one language. I'm okay with all of this except "mis". "mis" is a collection code, as I explained, and means "languages that don't belong to any other collection." It is not the universal collection. -- Mark Twain on Cecil Rhodes: John Cowan I admire him, I freely admit it, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan and when his time comes I shall cowan@ccil.org buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
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