Re: [Ltru] Extended language tags

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Fri, 05 October 2007 03:22 UTC

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To: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Extended language tags
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Shawn Steele scripsit:

> * I don't think the Breton example applies.  http-accept-lang allows for
> "br-FR;fr-FR" type fallback, so that is a solution.  If an application
> independently wanted to make this assumption that's fine by me, but
> this seems orthogonal to the problem we're trying to solve here.

That works for filtering (which is what Accept-Lang does), but not so
well in practice for lookup.  Normally people don't specify multiple match patterns
in lookup situations, they just say "I speak Breton, what's the best
match you have?"

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