Proposal: Language code "de-DE-trad"
John Clews
Scripts2@sesame.demon.co.uk
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:59:07 GMT
I quite like the following from the ed of Torsten's email:
In message <3C683103.9070402@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Torsten Bronger writes:
> So why not interpret the tag as I explained in my very first posting?
> "de-??-????" for explicit specification, whereas "de{-DE}" may cause
> the software (or whatever) to try to find out what it is, or -- if it
> fails or doesn't want to do that -- it assumes the most current form
> it knows. Then people aware of the difference can use subtags, the
> others have to hope for the best, and will get it mostly. The best of
> both worlds, in my opinion.
Very much so.
Best regards
John Clews
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