draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, "stability", and extensions

[Mark Davis]

> AFAIK the Unicode consortium plans a registry of locales, stuff
> like de-DE etc.  I hope that your ideas are compatible with
> whatever they do (I've no idea, sorry)

The Unicode consortium has already a registry of locales, at
www.unicode.org/cldr/ For the language part of the locale IDs*, we are using
an extension of 3066, and plan to switch to 3066 bis once it is released.
There are no compatibility problems; in fact, we are really hoping it is
done in time to use in the March release of CLDR 1.3.

*(I say 'part' since locales may specify more than language)

‎Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de>
To: <ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
Cc: <ietf at ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 21:55
Subject: Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications,
"stability", and extensions


> Addison Phillips [wM] wrote:
>
> > http://www.inter-locale.com/ID/draft-phillips-langtags-09.html
> > Your comments on that would be appreciated.
>
> The source of en-NH is still unclear, I don't have a copy of
> ISO 3166 3rd ed. 1988.  Even if somebody is willing to pay for
> it he may have a problem to get exactly this edition (?)
>
> Maybe use the existing IANA ccTLD registry instead of ISO 3166:
>
> Garbage in, garbage out, but at least I know where to find the
> IANA garbage ;-).  With your 1988 edition you have a problem
> for TP (now TL), DD (now a part of DE), PS (introduced after
> 1988 IIRC), etc.  I don't check Yemen and Zaire.  If you really
> must use an old ISO 3166 edition use the 5th edition 1999 (they
> commited net suicide with CS in 2003).
>
> ISO 3166 has numerous non(sense)-country codes, not only clear
> cases like FX.  Try ccTLDs, there you'd also get weird stuff
> like SJ or AQ, but at least nobody plans to recycle old ccTLDs.
>
> > Frank has raised some good issues: I believe I responded to
> > his message.
>
> Sorry, I somehow missed it, or it was very recently on the IETF
> "language" list (I only look into "general" regularly, skipping
> the admin stuff it's a quiet list).
>
> > The draft specifies ONE mechanism, just like RFC 3066, and
> > notes that more specialized processing is possible.
>
> Okay.  Maybe use en-boont as a Caveat, where en-US-boont would
> be missed with your algorithm.  That also covers my de-CH-1996
> problem.  You could add se-Latn-AX as second example, because
> it's not only a potential problem for country codes, it's also
> a potential problem for scripts, when the script is more or
> less irrelevant, because it's the default for the language.
>
> And while you're at it maybe add some words about i-default,
> if I got it right you would expect IANA to mark i-default as
> "obsoleted by UND" (?)  It's one of these odd cases, probably
> you also expect IANA to mark i-klingon as "obsoleted by TLH".
>
> Actually that's already the case with RfC 3066.  That's strange,
> Harald registered i-default (December 2001), and he also wrote
> RfC 3066 (January 2001), and RfC 3066 says that all i-whatever
> should be deprecated as soon as an ISO 639 code is available...
> Maybe TLH and UND were introduced later.
>
> > The current draft REPLACES RFC 3066.
>
> AFAIK the Unicode consortium plans a registry of locales, stuff
> like de-DE etc.  I hope that your ideas are compatible with
> whatever they do (I've no idea, sorry)
>
>                        Bye, Frank
>
>
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