RE: [Ltru] Re: Extended language tags

Hi

I may have missed the answer to this question, apologies if I have, but why
not include cwm within the registry and then deprecate in favour of zh-cwm?
This way both are in the registry and the fallback, as described by Mark, is
facilitated. The same could be done for zh-yue and yue and no-nb etc.  Thus
if people tag "incorrectly", with, for example, cwm or yue, applications
would come up with the correct match anyway.

I cannot pretend that I understand the entirety of the current conversations
wrt extended language tags but I do think their inclusion would be useful
for matching purposes.

Best regards

Debbie Garside

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Steele [mailto:Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com]
> Sent: 09 October 2007 20:25
> To: Doug Ewell; LTRU Working Group
> Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Extended language tags
>
>
> > > * Even for the current tags, many of the people in the
> > > teleconference seem to extend RFC 4647 in ways that are best for
> > > them.  Strict use of
> > > 4647 behavior seems rare.  It seems reasonable to me to
> expect that
> > > in the future people may continue to do so and that RFC
> 4647 and the
> > > registry can only provide guidelines.
>
> > I agree with the part about RFC 4647, but not the Registry,
> at least
> > not in blanket terms.
>
> > The Registry contains some fields that are normative and
> some that are
> > informative.
>
> Tagging and lookup however are different.  Many of the uses
> I'm involved with presume that tags are correctly defined:
> ie: only installed locales are allowed to be used for
> resource names, or for marking documents.  Presumably the
> locales were created correctly when they were installed, so I
> don't have to worry about "eng" being valid.
>
> Making a matching dependency on the registry would require a
> new data source, which could be problematic, which is why I
> prefer the information be in the tags.  If the tags are
> invalid I won't match correctly, but I won't have to look up
> an on-line dependency.  Obviously this is less of a problem
> for some applications, but I don't see there being any
> downside and it does help to have the ext lang tag in this case.
>
> - Shawn
>
>

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