Re: [Ltru] Fwd: [apps-discuss] Defining a CBOR tag for RFC 5646 Language Tags

Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Mon, 12 May 2014 05:44 UTC

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From: Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
To: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>, LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
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Hi -

Is representation of multi-lingual strings a concern?

E.g.  "She said 'Bonjour', and then 'Ciao'."

Randy

>From: Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
>Sent: May 11, 2014 4:50 PM
>To: LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>, Ira McDonald <blueroofmusic@gmail.com>
>Subject: [Ltru] Fwd: [apps-discuss] Defining a CBOR tag for RFC 5646	Language Tags
>
>Hi,
>
><oops - retrying with the correct LTRU WG address this time, I hope...>
>
>Forwarding this note to the LTRU list for language tag experts to review.
>Please copy your reply to IETF Apps Discuss list (see below).
>
>Cheers,
>- Ira McDonald
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
>Date: Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:48 PM
>Subject: [apps-discuss] Defining a CBOR tag for RFC 5646 Language Tags
>To: IETF Apps Discuss <apps-discuss@ietf.org>
>Cc: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>
>
>
>If you care about language tags, I hope the subject got your
>attention.  If you don't, please ignore this request for assistance.
>
>Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC 7049) is a binary
>format for structured objects.  CBOR has a number of pre-defined data
>types and allows additional data types to be registered as "tags".
>Among the pre-defined data types is a text string (Unicode characters,
>encoded in UTF-8).  No facility is pre-defined for associating a
>Language Tag with such a string.
>
>A new CBOR tag is being proposed for combining a CBOR text string with
>a Language Tag.  The (single-page) proposal is in:
>
>http://peteroupc.github.io/CBOR/langtags.html
>
>The proposal is almost trivially obvious (pair a language tag with an
>UTF-8 string in a two-element array) and looks right to me.  But I'm
>not an expert in Language Tags, and silly mistakes are being made by
>non-experts all the time.
>
>If you are an expert in Language Tags:
>-- Is anything missing or could anything be done in a better way?
>-- Or does this really simply look right?
>
>Responses to me privately or to the list are appreciated.
>
>Grüße, Carsten
>
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