draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications,
"stability", and extensions
John Cowan
jcowan at reutershealth.com
Thu Jan 6 20:18:58 CET 2005
Dave Singer scripsit:
> It has to be application-specific which fallback happens. If the
> user says he's swiss french, and the the content has alternative
> offers for swiss german or french french, which do you present? If
> the content actually differs for legal or geographic reasons ('the
> legal representative in your country is', 'for copyright reasons this
> edition differs in material ways from other countries'), then the
> correct country but wrong language is the best answer. If the desire
> is simply for maximum intelligibility, then the reverse is true.
Absolutely, which is why the fallback rule isn't and can't be a
protocol-level transaction or (a fortiori) an interop issue. It's
simply a useful default in many circumstances.
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