Language tag too specific

[Mark Davis ☕]

Your formulation points out that the results depend heavily on the matching
algorithm.
Without context I don't know what that is.

We, for example, identify en with the most populous country, eg the US.

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On Mar 15, 2013 6:26 PM, "John Cowan" <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Mark Davis ☕ scripsit:
>
> > "titles" :
> >            {
> >                "en" : "The Magical Theater of Bob",
> >                "fr" : "Le Théâtre Magique de Bob"
> >            }
>
> Less than half of all anglophones will like that less than half as well
> as it might deserve, abstractly considered.  How about this?
>
> "titles" :
>            {
>                 "en-us" : "The Magical Theater of Bob",
>                 "en" : "The magical theatre of Bob",
>                 "fr" : "Le théâtre magique de Bob"
>            }
>
> In that way, all non-Yank anglophones get the right answers for them.
> Of course, you can't always count on such a piece of luck.
>
> --
> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan         cowan at ccil.org
> The native charset of SMS messages supports English, French, mainland
> Scandinavian languages, German, Italian, Spanish with no accents, and
> GREEK SHOUTING.  Everything else has to be Unicode, which means you get
> only 70 16-bit characters in a text instead of 160 7-bit characters.
>
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