Web Form: Subj: Jawi letters

[Debbie Garside]

Doug Ewell said:

>For many information-technology purposes, subtags are more useful than
assigning a discrete code to every language and dialect.

But if you can have a system that facilitates both...???

Debbie Garside
Linguasphere ICT 

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Doug Ewell
Sent: 23 July 2004 08:54
To: ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: Web Form: Subj: Jawi letters

Dafydd Dalby <Speechways at aol dot com> wrote:

> Each spoken, written and signed form of language in the world deserves 
> an umabiguous code, clearly defined in relation to all adjacent 
> langtags, and avoiding the problems of sub-tagging.

Which problems?  For many information-technology purposes, subtags are more
useful than assigning a discrete code to every language and dialect.

If I am tagging Chinese content on the Internet, it is almost certainly more
useful to use a tag like 'zh-CN' or 'zh-TW' or 'zh-Hans' or 'zh-Hant', which
can at least match 'zh' as a fallback, rather than a tagging system which
treats these variations as if they were as different as 'zh' and 'en' and
'ar'.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/


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