Script codes in RFC 3066
Mark Davis
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Wed Apr 9 17:31:18 CEST 2003
As Ken has pointed out in other fora, if a proposal's success depends on a
large proportion of authors properly tagging their pages, then there is not
much of a chance for success.
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Caoimhin O Donnaile" <caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk>
To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 15:29
Subject: Re: Script codes in RFC 3066
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
>
> > I don't see how current practice has much to do with your (very
> > interesting) database idea though.
>
> If "language hetrarchy aware" software is going to be the norm in
> the near future it could have the following implications:
>
> - There should be more of a drive to label web pages correctly -
> e.g. as "Pfälzisch" rather than as "German"; or as "Scots"
> rather than as "English" if this is the case - because users will
> (hopefully!) set their browsers and searches to accept the
> appropriate wider category and still find them.
>
> - More pages and other resources should be labelled with the
> best available language information, e.g. "Frisian", rather
> than being left unlabelled because the exact language is
> unknown.
>
> - Even more incentive to vastly expand the set of codes allowed
> in information processing in the near future. Less fear of
> "getting it wrong" since the database will retain basic
> information on obsoleted codes.
>
> - More incentive to tag at the "sub-language" level, or at least
> be liberal in the definition of "language".
>
> - Little incentive to use hyphens in new language codes, since
> the database would provide much better hierarchic information.
> Existing codes with hyphens could be treated as atomic strings,
> with the hyphens purely for human ease of reading. Alternatively,
> there would be the possibility of evolving towards an entirely
> fixed-length system of language codes for neatness, if this
> were felt to be desirable, with the previous hyphenated codes
> retained in the database as obsoleted codes.
>
> Caoimhín
>
>
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