Using - or _ in language tags and/or locales
John Cowan
jcowan@reutershealth.com
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:40:08 -0500
John Clews wrote:
> To me this blurs the distinction between locales and language tags
> (two different things, though with byte strings in common).
Additionally, it makes life very messy when the "language" part of
the locale itelf contains a "-". For example, a Cantonese-US
locale would properly be zh-yue_US; calling it zh_yue_us or zh-yue-us
would do nothing but confuse the issue.
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