Language tag too specific

Richard BUDELBERGER budelberger.richard at wanadoo.fr
Mon Mar 18 19:16:12 CET 2013


> Message du 15/03/13 18:27
> De : "John Cowan" 
> A : "Mark Davis" 
> Copie à : webfinger at ietf.org, ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
> Objet : Re: Language tag too specific
> 
>> 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. 

«Bob» being an unFrench name:

"titles" : 
{ 
"en-us" : "The Magical Theater of Bob", 
"en" : "The magical theatre of Bob", 
"fr" : "Le théâtre magique de" "en-us" : "Bob" 
} 


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