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Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> Tue, 03 June 2008 20:26 UTC

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Phillips, Addison 2008-06-03 21.43:

>> It is also permissible, within one's own application, to tag
>> UK English as 'en' and require US English to be tagged
>> 'en-US'.  But "permissible" doesn't mean "advisable". I would
>> argue that if an application knows the difference and cares
>> about the difference, that it would be much better to use
>> both 'en-GB' and 'en-US', and reserve naked 'en' for the
>> cases where there's no value in making the distinction (e.g.,
>> it can't tell or doesn't care).
>> 
> 
> I don't disagree. However...

   [...]

> Yes, the resources could have be labeled more specifically than
> 'zh'. But then I would run the risk of having a user with an
> unfamiliar locale configuration not seeing the Chinese
> resources they paid for. [...]


A well known issue ...
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