No consensus on en-GB-oed replacement?

Peter Constable petercon at microsoft.com
Tue Mar 31 00:16:13 CEST 2015


But Shawn's point is right: it's known as "OED". I suggest "oeddict" — yes, there's redundancy, but so what. But I can live with anything. These aren't end-user display strings after all.

Peter

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From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Shawn Steele
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:32 PM
To: Phillips, Addison; Michael Everson; ietflang IETF Languages Discussion
Subject: RE: No consensus on en-GB-oed replacement?

Oh, yes, thanks :)

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From: Phillips, Addison [mailto:addison at lab126.com]
Sent: monjaj, march 30, DIS 2015 tera' 12:26
To: Shawn Steele; Michael Everson; ietflang IETF Languages Discussion
Subject: RE: No consensus on en-GB-oed replacement?

Variants must be at least four characters long (if starting with a digit) or five characters long (if starting with a letter). 

Addison

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On 
> Behalf Of Shawn Steele
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 12:22 PM
> To: Michael Everson; ietflang IETF Languages Discussion
> Subject: RE: No consensus on en-GB-oed replacement?
> 
> Rather a nit and I don't care, but OED is a widely known term for OED 
> so if OED is what is meant, then shouldn't it be oed?  Of course 
> there's that oed thing.  (Archives not working for me, so I don't have 
> context of previous discussion on this).
> 
> -Shawn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ietf-languages [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: Satjaj, march 28, DIS 2015 tera' 6:51
> To: ietflang IETF Languages Discussion
> Subject: Re: No consensus on en-GB-oed replacement?
> 
> On 28 Mar 2015, at 13:10, Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at telia.com> wrote:
> 
> > Please not "oxendict". I'd much prefer "oxford". In the event 
> > someone
> were to request a subtag for *Oxfordian dialect", the use something 
> like "oxfordia" or "oxfordin" would serve well and be mnemonic.
> 
> Hundreds of dictionaries are published by the Oxford University Press. 
> This subtag refers to the OED orthography, or the orthography of the 
> *Ox*ford *En*glish *Dict*ionary.
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
> 
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