- From: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:27:37 -0700
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
- CC: "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>, LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>
+1 Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 11:56 AM > To: Mark Davis > Cc: www-international@w3.org; LTRU Working Group > Subject: Re: [Ltru] RE: For review: Tagging text with no language > > Mark Davis scripsit: > > > Q1. I had missed the choice of "mis". I agree with that suggestion; > > we should incorporate that into 4646bis. The problem is ameliorated > > considerably once we add -3, but it doesn't disappear completely, so > > "mis" remains a good choice for dealing with that situation. > > I did not mean to suggest that "mis" is suitable in cases of ignorance > about the language in use: it is not a fallback *language* code. Rather, > it is a fallback language *collection* code, suitable for languages that > don't appear in any other ISO 639-2 collection. By the Ethnologue's > count, there are about 130 of these. > > So it would be an error to tag a language you didn't recognize as 'mis', > because it is far more likely to be one of the non-'mis' languages, for > the same reason that it would be incorrect to use 'en' or 'nds' or 'afa'. > If you want a completely vague language tag, use 'und' (excluding for > the moment the question of whether non-linguistic content not recognized > as such can be tagged 'und'). > > > Q2. The issue *does* remain, since we talk about "und" vs the absence > > of a language tag, which "" represents. > > I still don't see that there's anything more to say than we are > saying already, which is just a special case of "Tag wisely". > > -- > I now introduce Professor Smullyan, John Cowan > who will prove to you that either cowan@ccil.org > he doesn't exist or you don't exist, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > but you won't know which. --Melvin Fitting > > _______________________________________________ > Ltru mailing list > Ltru@ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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