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Re: [I18nrp] charter -01

"Jiankang Yao" <yaojk@cnnic.cn> Thu, 16 August 2018 01:43 UTC

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From: Hollenbeck, Scott
Date: 2018-08-15 22:42
To: 'i18nrp@ietf.org'
Subject: Re: [I18nrp] charter -01


>> Internationalization Directorate (i18ndir) Charter
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>"Internationalization" sometimes drifts into areas that I would describe as "localization". That is, use in some local-only context. Does anyone else see this distinction,
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Thanks for pointing it out.
Actually, I share some similar ideas with you when I did some research in idn, eai and Internationalization many years ago.

I am a Chinese speaker. If we talk about Internationalization in general in our culture, not in IETF scope, Internationalization means to use English/latin character to reach outside China, localization is to mean how to use Chinese Character to adapt to the local needs.

For Non-English speaker, Internationalization is to reach the English speaker, localization is to reach the local people of non-English.
For English speaker, Internationalization is to reach the non-English speaker, localization is to reach the local people of English.
So I am sure that the wording "Internationalization " in IETF is invented by some native English IETF expert.


Back to the wording of Internationalization in IETF, my understanding is that Internationalization is how to use Unicode which includes almost all local characters; localization is how to use the local encoding such as GB2312.

Yes, Internationalization  sometimes includes  some local-only context. For an example, in IDN, we sometimes need to consider Chinese character (simplified one, tradtional one), Arabic character(right to left); these characters may need to have some special rules to deal to be adapt to the local needs.



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> and if so, is it something to be concerned about?
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We need to refine the definition of Internationalization and loccalization in IETF.

Best Regards
Jiankang Yao

>Scott
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