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Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> Thu, 29 May 2008 19:34 UTC

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I'm sorry if it was possible to think that I said that one do not 
need to distinguish Mandarin and Cantonese.

Mark Davis 2008-05-29 20.55:

> As Karen says, we need the "yue" code, because it is very different than
> "cmn", as different as French and Spanish. It would be like having to tag
> all Skandinavian content with *"ski" instead of being able to distinguish
> "da", "is", ...
> Mark
> 
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Broome, Karen <Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Leif notes:
>>
>> >I think that 'cmn' will be perceived as 'oh, now they have decided
>> >something entirely new'.  We used 'zh' in all these yeaers, and
>> >now - why 'yue'?
>>
>> Depends on the context. In my industry, made-up codes are the rule rather
>> than the exception for Mandarin and Cantonese. Having the ability to
>> precisely code the difference in an internationally recognized way is very
>> important to us. Web developers who do not YET deal with video content may
>> not see the importance, but for anyone who classifies audio/video content,
>> the existence of these tags is a relief. I think the reaction from Hollywood
>> is likely, "What took you so long?"

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