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Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Fri, 16 May 2008 16:54 UTC

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> From: Phillips, Addison [mailto:addison@amazon.com]


> > "zh", although they certainly can. The situation in which it's *most*
> > reasonable to tag Cantonese content "zh" is when it is understandable
> > to those that read Mandarin -- meaning it's understandable by the
> vast
> > majority.
>
> So we have a small impasse, indicative of the larger problem here: do
> we or do we not recommend against the use of 'zh' to tag Mandarin
> Chinese? It isn't the tagging of Cantonese that is the controversy. It
> is whether 'zh' is equated with Mandarin.

Again, I don't see why what I said is interpreted as equating 'zh' with Mandarin. I'm completely opposed to that. Re carefully the text that Mark sent: nowhere does it say, "If your content is Mandarin, you SHOULD use 'zh'," or, "It can be assumed that content tagged 'zh' is in Mandarin."



Peter
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