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Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

"Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com> Tue, 03 June 2008 18:43 UTC

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From: "Broome, Karen" <Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com>
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Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:42:58 -0700
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If it wasn't already clear from my previous e-mail, I absolutely agree with this. (And Addison probably said it better than I did. Thanks!)

Karen

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
>Of Phillips, Addison
>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:32 AM
>To: Randy Presuhn; LTRU Working Group
>Subject: Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang
>
>>
>> I share this concern.  It must be crystal clear that 'zh' does NOT
>> mean Mandarin,
>> but rather any kind of Chinese.
>
>+1
>
>> Of course, there are cases where
>> one might
>> deliberately be imprecise in tagging, but we should not be so
>
>It is always permissible to tag Mandarin as 'zh'. It is also
>permissible, within one's own application, to require that people
>who want something other than Mandarin to use a different tag than
>'zh'. For example they can be required to use the tag (choose one:
>yue | zh-yue).
>
>What is not permissible is to dismiss someone else's Cantonese
>content tagged as 'zh' as wrong.
>
>A corollary example might help:
>
>It is always permissible to tag US English as 'en'. It is also
>permissible, within one's own application, to require that people
>who want something other than US English to us a different tag from
>'en'. For example, they can be required to use the tag 'en-GB'.
>
>What is not permissible is to dismiss someone else's UK English
>content tagged as 'en' as wrong.
>
>Addison
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