<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 14 Mar 2008, at 5:07 pm, Peter Constable wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312"> <div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="Section1"><p class="MsoPlainText"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">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:</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <table class="MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; position: static; z-index: auto; "> <tbody><tr> <td width="153" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:114.7pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; background:#F2F2F2;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><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> </td> <td width="180" valign="top" style="width:135.0pt;border-top:solid black 1.0pt; border-left:none;border-bottom:none;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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="162" valign="top" style="width:121.5pt;border-top:solid black 1.0pt; border-left:none;border-bottom:none;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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="77" valign="top" style="width:58.1pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; border-top:none;background:#F2F2F2;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:black">Name ID<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="75" valign="top" style="width:56.6pt;border-top:none;border-left:none; 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> </td> <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; background:#F2F2F2;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:black">Use<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <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; background:#F2F2F2;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:black">Value<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="77" valign="top" style="width:58.1pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; 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> </td> <td width="75" valign="top" style="width:56.6pt;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">en<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <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">English display name<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <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="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; color:black">¡°Microsoft YaHei¡±<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="77" valign="top" style="width:58.1pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; 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> </td> <td width="75" valign="top" style="width:56.6pt;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">zh-Hans<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <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> </td> <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">¡°</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> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="77" valign="top" style="width:58.1pt;border:solid black 1.0pt; 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> </td> <td width="75" valign="top" style="width:56.6pt;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">??<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <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">Language-neutral reference name<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <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¡±</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">I need a language tag to replace ??.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Like Michael said, as long as you're not using zxx in any other name:lang key-pair, then zxx will suffice.</div><div>Consider if the value of the language-neutral name was unprintable as ASCII.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>¡ª Nicholas Shanks.</div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>