[Fwd]: Response to Mark's message]

Jon Hanna jon at spin.ie
Wed Apr 9 18:51:37 CEST 2003


> >I, for one, do not think that RFC3066 should be changed to deal with
> >locales.
>
> I agree.

Oh sweet Aradia preserve us from such a thing!
It's worth noting though that people keep doing exactly that, some with full
awareness of the dangers, some blissfully ignorant.

> >It *should* be changed to accommodate distinctions in things like
> >writing system/orthographies/spelling conventions as well as
> language, but
> >not locales.
>
> I completely agree.

How close to a combination of language and writing system are people talking
about here?

Same tag? linked tag? orthogonal tag?



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