Re: [Ltru] Re: no teleconference this week

Fine by me.

On Dec 4, 2007 9:34 PM, Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

> Doug Ewell wrote:
> > Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo dash inc dot com> wrote:
> >
> >> There is already a note in 4646bis about Macrolanguage. Perhaps take a
> >> look at it and comment directly on the text?
> >
> > I assume this means the three paragraphs near the bottom of Section 4.1.
> > I think this text is really the best we can do to capture the intent of
> > the WG.  Anything more specific will raise more questions than it
> answers.
>
> Exactly so. I think this is best.
>
> >
> > I'm opposed to spending time on a revision of RFC 4647, since we expect
> > everyone to ignore it anyway and stick with remove-from-right.
>
> I'm completely mystified by this statement, which you've made several
> times already. I don't at all expect that 4647 will be ignored. Quite
> the contrary. However, "remove-from-right" *is* the heart of the
> algorithms described in that document. Removal of extlang means we don't
> have to modify the actual algorithms to do other than RFR. Or did I miss
> something?
>
> It might be nice to revise 4647 to specifically deal with Macrolanguage
> information and the like. However, I think we can have tutorials or text
> published on the general problem of language negotiation separately (I
> certainly intend to help revise the one at W3C!) and this will allow us
> to finish this work sooner rather than later. Since the algorithms are
> unaffected by the editorial changes suggested, I would think we could
> deal with Macrolanguage in the section in 4646bis on tag/range choice as
> a suitable workaround.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Addison
>
> --
> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.
> Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG
>
> Internationalization is an architecture.
> It is not a feature.
>

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Mark