Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang
Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> Tue, 03 June 2008 19:26 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang
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Phillips, Addison 2008-06-03 20.32: >> I share this concern. It must be crystal clear that 'zh' >> does NOT mean Mandarin, but rather any kind of Chinese. > > +1 > >> Of course, there are cases where one might deliberately be >> imprecise in tagging, but we should not be so > > It is always permissible to tag Mandarin as 'zh'. It is also I hear this a lot: «'zh' is for all Chinese. But it is permissible to use 'zh' for Mandarin.» If you really want to emphasize that 'zh' is for all, then you must start saing that it is permissible to use 'zh' for Cantonese - because we allready know that it is allowed for Mandarine. > permissible, within one's own application, to require that > people who want something other than Mandarin to use a > different tag than 'zh'. For example they can be required to > use the tag (choose one: yue | zh-yue). Then it is also permissible to require Mandarin users to use 'cmn'. If we, as Doug said, "believe" in the macrolangauge thing, that it describes a real thing, then we should emphasize that it is not at all advicable to say that 'zh' means Cantonese or Mandarin in any context. 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. By wild card I mean this: when I use Mac OS X with Nynorsk as preferred langgae, then 'no' should lean towards meaning 'nn'. That is: If a text editor is tagged as having 'no' interface, then, even if this in reality means that it is Bokmål, still, for deciding which spell checking dictionary to use as default (often this is synced with the GUI langauge), the application should default to 'nn'/Nynorsk. But if I run Mac OS X with Bokmål as preferred langauge, then 'no' should default to be interpreted as an alias for 'nb' - thus bokmål dictionaries should be picked. The users will then have to accept that they cannot expect to have full control over the interface language of applications tagged as 'no'. And this is not difficult. Users accept this easily. As long as you do not use 'no' but translate it in the user interface as 'Nynorsk' or 'Bokmål'. Same for zh/Chinese, if it in some language is translated as 'Mandarin', then you will get user reactions if you use it for any thing else but Mandarin. Hence, such use should be avoided. > What is not permissible is to dismiss someone else's Cantonese > content tagged as 'zh' as wrong. > > A corollary example might help: > > It is always permissible to tag US English as 'en'. It is also > permissible, within one's own application, to require that > people who want something other than US English to us a > different tag from 'en'. For example, they can be required to > use the tag 'en-GB'. > > What is not permissible is to dismiss someone else's UK English > content tagged as 'en' as wrong. Let me reuse your example: In Mac OS X I can select UK English as preferred language. Unless 'en_UK' localisations are available, then the 'en' tagged localisations with 'en-US' content will be served. However, there will be one important difference: UK dictioanaries will be preferred over US ones. And and certain other things will shift to its British values. Just like the "color" of the "en" tag shifts based on whether the user prefers en-US, en-UK, en-Ca etc, the same way the Macrolanguage tag should shift according to which variety of the Chinese/Norwegian/Arabic language one is preferring. Btw, since I have been critical about Apple, I think they do the right thing when they use 'en' for US English *while still* translating its meaning as "English" and not as "US English". It is *this* which is permissible. And if this is what you mean, Addision, then I agree with you. But if you mean that one can use "en" but put a "US English" on it as a label, then I disagree. -- leif halvard silli _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Mark Davis
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Randy Presuhn
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- Re: [Ltru] clear guidance on tagging in cases inv… Felix Sasaki
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Mark Davis
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Martin Duerst
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Mark Davis
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Shawn Steele
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Shawn Steele
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
- [Ltru] Applications and Backward Compatibility RE… Debbie Garside
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Martin Duerst
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Martin Duerst
- [Ltru] Macrolanguage, Extlang. The Sami language … Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage, Extlang. The Sami langu… Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Applications and Backward Compatibilit… Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage, Extlang. The Sami langu… Don Osborn
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Mark Davis
- [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard Germa… Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage, Extlang. The Sami langu… Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… John Cowan
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- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage, Extlang. The Sami langu… Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Gerard Meijssen
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage, Extlang. The Sami langu… Kent Karlsson
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Macrolanguage, Extlang. The Sami langu… Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Phillips, Addison
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Phillips, Addison
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Phillips, Addison
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Randy Presuhn
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Kent Karlsson
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Phillips, Addison
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Kent Karlsson
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Does 'de' really mean "only standard G… John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Debbie Garside
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Mark Davis
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang John Cowan
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Felix Sasaki
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Randy Presuhn
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Randy Presuhn
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Kent Karlsson
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- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Broome, Karen
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Doug Ewell
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Martin Duerst
- Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang Leif Halvard Silli
- [Ltru] Standard german (Was: Consensus call: extl… Stephane Bortzmeyer
- Re: [Ltru] Standard german (Was: Consensus call: … Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Standard german (Was: Consensus call: … Phillips, Addison
- Re: [Ltru] Standard german (Was: Consensus call: … Randy Presuhn
- Re: [Ltru] Standard german (Was: Consensus call: … Peter Constable
- Re: [Ltru] Standard german (Was: Consensus call: … Mark Davis