Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Tue, 27 May 2008 11:29 UTC

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Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:06:42 +0900
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[technical hat on]

At 12:21 08/05/27, John Cowan wrote:
>Mark Davis scripsit:
>
>> I have been a strong proponent of RFC 4646. But I can't see any way to sell
>> software developers on the ways in which extlang would require a radical
>> change, eg that the Accept-Language value meaning 'Mandarin then French'
>> would be
>> 
>>    - under RFC 4646: "zh, fr"
>>    - under this proposal: "zh-cmn, zh, fr, zh-cjy;q=0, zh-cpx;q=0,
>>    zh-czh;q=0, zh-czo;q=0, zh-gan;q=0, zh-hak;q=0, zh-hsn;q=0, zh-mnp;q=0,
>>    zh-nan;q=0, zh-wuu;q=0, zh-yue;q=0".
>
>Actually, to get *exactly* the same effect under RFC 4646 you'd need to
>say "zh-cmn, zh, fr, zh-gan;q=0, zh-hakka;q=0, zh-min-nan;q=0, zh-wuu;q=0;
>zh-xiang;q=0, zh-yue;q=0", and that's not counting the deprecated forms.

Yes, and it's not covering languages that haven't been registered
(e.g. zh-cjy, Jinyu Chinese, which may simply have been tagged 'zh'
in lack of anything better), so it seems impossible to get *exactly*
the same, anyway.

Regards,    Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp     

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