Re: [Ltru] Extended language tags (long reply) - portuguese

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Tue, 09 October 2007 20:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Extended language tags (long reply) - portuguese
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Hi -

As a technical contributor...

> From: "Shawn Steele" <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>
> To: "Andrew Cunningham" <lang.support@gmail.com>; "Addison Phillips" <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
> Cc: <ltru@ietf.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:14 PM
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Extended language tags (long reply) - portuguese
...
> I do have one other concern that neither suggest addresses directly:
> My understanding (possibly incorrect) is that Brazilian Portuguese
> and Portuguese Portuguese are different enough to require different
> localizations.  Labeling them pt-BR and pt-PT are fine, except that
> if I end up with pt-MZ how do I find the best match?
...

Not our problem.  :-)

But seriously, this is exactly the same kind of problem as worries the
folks who don't like macrolangauge/extlang constructs; there are cases
where the results of remove-from-right heuristics won't always be helpful
in all situations.

Randy




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