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Subject: [Ltru] Last call: clarification between language tags and locales
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At 02:31 16/07/2005, Randy Presuhn wrote:
>"Although a language tag constructed from a primary language subtag
>followed by a region subtag bears a syntactic resemblance to a locale
>identifier, the two are not to be confused.  Locales typically provide
>information well beyond the identification of the language in use, as
>they are associated with modifying system and application behaviour."

Proposed text - as insert for relation with IESG pending an IESG decision:

"[Charter has explicitly said that langtags apply to HTML, XML, CLDR, etc. 
This WG has identified that this point of the Charter is to be requalified. 
In the case of CLDR, locales can certainly be described in using Langtags 
as many other language and country related objects and processes, such as 
publishing, reading, filtering, censoring, exchanging, communicating, 
classifying text, book, records, identifying expertise in a language, 
copyrights, etc. etc. However they also have the capacity to document non 
language related issues such as colors on a display, sound of a 
loudspeaker, process speed depending on a process pattern, default network 
addresses, etc.. They also can be partly patented to support patented 
processes. As such they may have to be identified in refering to patent 
references the "x-" escape sequence could support woud it not be limited to 
8-alpha/num for retro-compatibility with the never used before patent 
referencing. The WG hesitates to documents langtags for the CLDR and wishes 
to exclude langtags considerations from its charter, reserving to locale 
compilers the decision to use langtags as a part of, or an equivalent to, 
localtag or not. Should localtags be confirmed as directly belonging the 
Charter, a locale oriented "l-" final extension will be used where all the 
subsequent dashes would not be part of the Draft ABNF, in order to accept 
sequences of the form "-c-" included in some of the references to include.]"

jfc  


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