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Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Wed, 04 June 2008 02:57 UTC

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> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Leif Halvard Silli


> What we *should* say is that the Macrolanguage code should not be
> locked to any particular variety. Application developers should
> strive to keep it as a "free code" - a wild card that can be used
> by any of the encompassed languages...

> The users will then have to accept that they cannot expect to have
> full control over the interface language of applications tagged as
> 'no'... Same for zh/Chinese...

OK, so a user selects "Cantonese" as their preference, and some apps have Cantonese UI but other apps have Mandarin UI? And then when they search on the Web all the results they get are in Mandarin? And they'd find that acceptable?

Is that what you're suggesting?

(I'm not making any judgments; I just want to understand.)



Peter
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