Re: [css-fonts-3] i18n-ISSUE-300: ja-jp too verbose from Gunnar Bittersmann on 2013-09-13 (www-international@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:15:37 +0200
To: www-international@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <5232C9A9.6030602@bittersmann.de>

 > *:lang(ja-jp) would be better as *:lang(ja) - there is no need for the
 > jp, and the general recommendation is to keep the language tag as short
 > as possible.

I’m as confused as Jens. No need for JP and keeping language tags as 
short as possible means to prefer *:lang(ja) over *:lang(ja-jp).

And wouldn’t an example using *:lang(zh-Hant) be more appropriate than 
*:lang(zh-tw)?

Gunnar

Received on Friday, 13 September 2013 08:16:05 UTC