Language attributes- what are they?
John Cowan
jcowan at reutershealth.com
Sat Jan 1 10:07:51 CET 2005
Tex Texin scripsit:
> I can take your mail two ways.
> a) sorted lists should be dynamically changed to the user's preference.
Yes, when practicable.
> b) Documents written in a language are presumably targeted at readers of that
> language, and therefore should be sorted for the intended audience (as opposed
> to the actual preference of that individual). And this is true even if the list
> contents are in another language.
The rest of your email reads to me as if you thought I was arguing *for* using
language-tagging for sorting, but I was actually arguing against that position.
Sort order should be inferred from the locale specifier (which is per-user)
rather than the language tag (which is per-document, or per-section of document).
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