Re: [Ltru] Consensus call: extlang

["Mark Davis" <[e-mail]>]

You're right, that's the more complete description.
"zh-yue-Hans-MO"
=>
"yue-Hans-MO, yue-Hans, yue, zh"
=
"Cantonese-in-Simplified-Han-script-and-as-used-in-Macao
-but-then-fall-back-to-Cantonese-in-Simplified-Han-script-and then
fall-back-to-Cantonese-in-Simplified-Han-script-and
-then-fall-back-to-ambiguously-Chinese-of-indeterminent-script"

Mark

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Martin Duerst <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> At 13:14 08/05/29, Mark Davis wrote:
> >If identification is what you want, then "cmn" IS unambigously Mandarin
> (indeterminate script); "yue" is unambiguously Cantonese (indeterminate
> script); you certainly don't need extlang complicating matters.
> >
> >The string "zh-yue" is really a different semantic; it is not just
> Cantonese, it is "Cantonese-but-fall-back-to-ambiguously-Chinese-of-indeterminate-script"
> in lookup (but not some other operations like RFC 4646 filtering).
> >
> >And "zh-yue-Hant-MO" is "Cantonese-in-Simplified-Han
> -script-and-as-used-in-Macao-but-fall-back-to-ambiguously
> -Chinese-of-indeterminent-script", again, in lookup.
>
>
> Strictly speaking, wouldn't that be "Cantonese-in-Simplified-Han
> -script-and-as-used-in-Macao-but-then-fall-back-to-Cantone
> se-in-Simplified-Han-script-and then fall-back-to-Cantonese-in
> -Simplified-Han-script-and-then-fall-back-to-ambiguously
> -Chinese-of-indeterminent-script", in lookup?
>
> Regards,   Martin.
>
>
>
>
>
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-#-#   http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:[e-mail]
>
>


-- 
Mark

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