Re: [webfinger] [appsawg] #12: Semantic gap for the client side

["Paul E. Jones" <[e-mail]>]

Stephane,

If I am entering the text that goes into the WF output and I spell words
using US English, then en-us is the appropriate thing to put.  Just because
the spelling in that particular example aligns with British spelling does
not mean there is no significance.

Following your example, I assume you would agree with this:

    {
        "en-us" : "The Magical Theater of Bob",
        "fr" : "Le Théâtre magique de Bob"
    }

But the software didn't change.  And my WF server is not going to have a
language analyzer to know the least restrictive value to use.  The language
tag is likely going to be fairly automatic and derived from the user's
locale.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Stephane Bortzmeyer' [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 6:11 AM
> To: Paul E. Jones
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [webfinger] [appsawg] #12: Semantic gap for the client side
> 
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:28:10PM -0400,
>  Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]> wrote
>  a message of 66 lines which said:
> 
> > > OK for me (except the erroneous "en-us" that I already mentioned here)
> >
> > What's the issue with "en-us"?
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/webfinger/current/msg00555.html
> 
> RFC 5646 says:
> 
> >      Use as precise a tag as possible, but no more specific than is
> >      justified.  Avoid using subtags that are not important for
> >      distinguishing content in an application.
> >
> >       * For example, 'de' might suffice for tagging an email written
> >          in German, while "de-CH-1996" is probably unnecessarily
> >          precise for such a task.
> 
> Which seems to apply exactly here (there is nothing US-specific in the
> sentence). May be, instead:
> 
> "titles" :
>            {
>                "en-us" : "The Magical Theater of Bob",
>                "en-gb" : "The Magical Theatre of Bob",
> ...