[Fwd]: Response to Mark's message]

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Apr 9 18:06:28 CEST 2003


At 10:48 -0500 2003-04-09, Peter_Constable at sil.org wrote:

>I, for one, do not think that RFC3066 should be changed to deal with
>locales.

I agree.

>It *should* be changed to accommodate distinctions in things like
>writing system/orthographies/spelling conventions as well as language, but
>not locales.

I completely agree.

>Such an extended RFC3066 would be of use for locale identification 
>since language and text-related distinctions are relevant for 
>locales, but locales go beyond the scope of what RFC3066 has been 
>and should be intended to deal with.

I completely and entirely agree.

And I'm 15924 registrar and 3066 language tag reviewer. Heh heh heh. :-)
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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