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<p class=MsoPlainText>> From: ietf-languages-bounces@alvestrand.no
[mailto:ietf-languages-</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >An OpenType font can have strings for family
name (or other various</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >data categories) in multiple languages, but for
good</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >internationalization design, what should be
passed in programming</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >APIs or put in markup for purposes of selecting
a font resource</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >should be completely independent of the current
user's UI language.</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> </p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> I understand.</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >The language identifier (for which I'm spec'ing
the use of BCP 47)</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >constitutes part of the key used to index all of
the string</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >resources in an OpenType font, so I need to use
an ID from the same</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> >identifier space.</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> </p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> I don't understand. "fa" is your language.
What "language tag" are</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>> you using to access the translations?</p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Let me give a concrete example, which should make this clear.
Consider the Microsoft YaHei font: the 'name' table has strings for various
data categories, and for a given data category there may be strings in various
languages. Consider the data category Family (name ID 1): there are display
strings for English and for Simplified Chinese. But we also want a entry that
would be the Family name that gets used when the font is referenced in
text-drawing APIs or document markup; it doesn't matter at all whether that's
the English or Chinese (or some other) name. But it does need a separate entry
in the 'name' table, and it will need a BCP47 tag as part of its key. Thus:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Key<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Name ID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;background:
#F2F2F2;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Lang ID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Use<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Value<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>en<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td width=180 valign=top style='width:135.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:
none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>English display name<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td width=162 valign=top style='width:121.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:
none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>¡°Microsoft YaHei¡±<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td width=75 valign=top style='width:56.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>zh-Hans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td width=180 valign=top style='width:135.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:
none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Chinese display name<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td width=162 valign=top style='width:121.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:
none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>¡°</span><span lang=ZH-CN style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:SimSun'>΢ÈíÑźÚ</span><span
style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>¡±</span><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Language-neutral reference name<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<td width=162 valign=top style='width:121.5pt;border-top:none;border-left:
none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>¡°Microsoft YaHei¡±<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I need a language tag to
replace ??.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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