+1 to Mark's comments. Peter, congratulations - this is a milestone indeed.<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Mark Davis ☕ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@macchiato.com">mark@macchiato.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><font face="times new roman,serif">That's a great achievement; I know something of what it is like to get all of the pieces lined up </font><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"> </span><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif">in a complex product (or set of products) </span><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif">to make something like this happen. It takes a lot of work…</span></div>
<div><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif">I'll look forward to trying it out; congratulations to you and your team, Peter!<br clear="all"></font><font face="'times new roman', serif"><div style="background-color:transparent;margin-top:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:43, Peter Constable <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petercon@microsoft.com" target="_blank">petercon@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[I know this will sound like a product plug. It may be that in part, but I really do want to applaud BCP 47.]<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Windows 8 Consumer Preview went live today for the public to download and try out. One of the changes in this release is in the area of international settings, with the new Language control panel as the focal point. In previous versions
of Windows, users were very limited (relative to the thousands of known languages) in terms of getting Windows to recognize the languages that they use. Thanks to ISO 639-3 and BCP 47, this is radically changed in Windows 8: users are now able to indicate
preferences from thousands of languages (and tens of thousands of language-script pairings).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To keep from having an overwhelming number of options from being presented, we don’t list every possibility by default. But using the search feature when you add a language, you can search on many additional language names, and you can
also search using a BCP 47 tag. Any “valid” BCP 47 language tag will be accepted, and that language can be added to your user profile. For our purposes, “valid” means (i) subtags are known (we’ll have a snapshot of LTRU), (ii) the script for the language is
known (either an explicit script subtag or the script can be implied from the language subtag), and (iii) the script is one for which Windows 8 has text display support (I’ve lost count—close to 50).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, for instance, users can add to their profile languages such as sga-Oghm (Old Irish written in Ogham script) or tlh-Latn (Klingon written in Latin script). And with that, they can search for web content in those languages, or edit documents
in those languages, or write apps or language tools like spelling checkers for those languages.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s a milestone with personal significance for me—I started looking into how thousands of lesser-known languages could be supported in commercial software over 12 years ago. I want to give a big thanks to everyone who was involved in the
(sometimes arduous) work on BCP 47 during that time. I see this a great success for BCP 47, and I hope it will lead to lots of success stories for smaller language communities throughout the world.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, all!<span><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal">Peter Constable<u></u><u></u></p>
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